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Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws

Author : Ryan Krieger Balot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197647233
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws written by Ryan Krieger Balot and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens whose judgment is typically unsound? In a searching and provocative analysis, Ryan Balot addresses these timely - though universal - political questions by offering a novel interpretation of Plato's Laws. Turning to the ancient past is essential to reinvigorating our contemporary understanding of these all-important issues. Previous readers have either celebrated the work's idealism or denounced its totalitarianism. Balot, by contrast, refuses to interpret the dialogue as a political blueprint, whether admirable or misguided. He shows instead that it constitutes Plato's greatest philosophical investigation of political life. In this transformative re-appraisal, Balot reveals that Plato's goal was to cultivate a tragic attitude toward our political passions, commitments, and aspirations. The result is a profound political inquiry with far-reaching consequences"--

Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws

Author : Ryan Krieger Balot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197647227
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws written by Ryan Krieger Balot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous scholars and writers have either celebrated the idealism in Plato's Laws or denounced its totalitarianism. Ryan K. Balot, by contrast, refuses to interpret the dialogue as a political blueprint, whether admirable or misguided. Instead, he shows that it constitutes Plato's greatest philosophical investigation of political life. In this transformative re-appraisal, Balot reveals that Plato's goal was to cultivate a tragic attitude toward our political passions, commitments, and aspirations.

Plato's Laws

Author : Gregory Recco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001781
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Laws written by Gregory Recco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the connections among the essays and the dramatic and productive exchanges between the contributors. This volume fills a major gap in studies on Plato's dialogues by addressing the cultural and historical context of the Laws and highlighting their importance to contemporary scholarship.

The Spartan Drama of Plato's Laws

Author : Eli Friedland
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781793603685
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Spartan Drama of Plato's Laws written by Eli Friedland and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spartan Drama of Plato's Laws is the first interpretation of the Laws to give sustained consideration to Megillos, the only character from Sparta that Plato created. Eli Friedland shows the profound importance of character to the Laws, and the rich drama of Plato's longest, and supposedly driest, work.

Laws

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Laws written by Plato and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.

Laws

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517260446
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Laws written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In other dialogues of Plato, as well as in the Republic, there are to be found parallels with the Laws. Such resemblances, as we might expect, occur chiefly (but not exclusively) in the dialogues which, on other grounds, we may suppose to be of later date. The punishment of evil is to be like evil men (Laws), as he says also in the Theaetetus. Compare again the dependence of tragedy and comedy on one another, of which he gives the reason in the Laws-'For serious things cannot be understood without laughable, nor opposites at all without opposites, if a man is really to have intelligence of either'; here he puts forward the principle which is the groundwork of the thesis of Socrates in the Symposium, 'that the genius of tragedy is the same as that of comedy, and that the writer of comedy ought to be a writer of tragedy also.' There is a truth and right which is above Law (Laws), as we learn also from the Statesman. That men are the possession of the Gods (Laws), is a reflection which likewise occurs in the Phaedo. The remark, whether serious or ironical (Laws), that 'the sons of the Gods naturally believed in the Gods, because they had the means of knowing about them, ' is found in the Timaeus. The reign of Cronos, who is the divine ruler (Laws), is a reminiscence of the Statesman. It is remarkable that in the Sophist and Statesman (Soph.), Plato, speaking in the character of the Eleatic Stranger, has already put on the old man. The madness of the poets, again, is a favourite notion of Plato's, which occurs also in the Laws, as well as in the Phaedrus, Ion, and elsewhere. There are traces in the Laws of the same desire to base speculation upon history which we find in the Critias. Once more, there is a striking parallel with the paradox of the Gorgias, that 'if you do evil, it is better to be punished than to be unpunished, ' in the Laws: 'To live having all goods without justice and virtue is the greatest of evils if life be immortal, but not so great if the bad man lives but a short time

The Tragedy and Comedy of Life

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226042766
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy and Comedy of Life written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete completes his examination of Plato's understanding of the beautiful, the just, and the good. Benardete first treated the beautiful in The Being of the Beautiful (1984), which dealt with the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman; and he treated the just in Socrates Second Sailing (1989), which dealt with the Republic and sought to determine the just in its relation to the beautiful and the good. Benardete focuses in this volume on the good as discussed in the Philebus, which is widely regarded as one of Plato's most complex dialogues. Traditionally, the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the supposedly Platonic doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body. Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrates vindicates the life of the mind over against the life of pleasure not by separating the two and advocating a strict asceticism, but by mixing pleasure and pain with mind in such a way that the philosophic life emerges as the only possible human life. Socrates accomplishes this by making use of two principles - the limited and the unlimited - and shows that the very possibility of philosophy requires not just the limited but also the unlimited, for the unlimited permeates the entirety of life as well as the endless perplexity of thinking itself. Benardete combines a probing and challenging commentary that subtly mirrors and illumines the complexities of this extraordinarily difficult dialogue with the finest English translation of the Philebus yet available. The result is a work that will be of great value to classicists, philosophers, and political theorists alike.

Plato's "Laws"

Author : Seth Benardete
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826422
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Plato's "Laws" written by Seth Benardete and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work. The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of the Laws, which illuminates Plato’s major themes and arguments concerning theology, the soul, justice, and education. Most importantly, Benardete shows how music in a broad sense, including drama, epic poetry, and even puppetry, mediates between reason and the city in Plato’s philosophy of law. Benardete also uncovers the work’s concealed ontological dimension, explaining why it is hidden and how it can be brought to light. In establishing the coherence and underlying organization of Plato’s last dialogue, Benardete makes a significant contribution to Platonic studies.

The Truest Tragedy

Author : Angelos Kargas
Publisher : Minerva Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Truest Tragedy written by Angelos Kargas and published by Minerva Press (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aristotle on Political Community

Author : David J. Riesbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107107024
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Political Community written by David J. Riesbeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.

Plato's Cretan City

Author : Glenn R. Morrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691242852
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Cretan City written by Glenn R. Morrow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Cretan City is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's Laws and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the Laws proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in Athens, Crete, and Sparta on which Plato based his model city, and explores the philosopher's proposed regulations concerning property, the family, government, and the administration of justice, education, and religion. He approaches the Laws as both a living document of reform and a philosophical inquiry into humankind's highest earthly duty.

The Tragedy of Political Theory

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218188
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Political Theory written by J. Peter Euben and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.

Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws

Author : Lucia Prauscello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107072883
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws written by Lucia Prauscello and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato's Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

Divine Law and Political Philosophy in Plato's "Laws"

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Author : Mark J. Lutz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609090489
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Divine Law and Political Philosophy in Plato's "Laws" written by Mark J. Lutz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reason—not faith—should be the basis of politics and the law, proponents of divine law raise theoretical and practical concerns that must be addressed seriously and respectfully. As Mark J. Lutz makes plain in this illuminating book, they have an important ally in Plato, whose long neglected Laws provides an eye-opening analysis of the relation between political philosophy and religion and a powerful defense of political rationalism. Plato mounts his case, Lutz reveals, through a productive dialogue between his Athenian Stranger and various devout citizens that begins by exploring the common ground between them, but ultimately establishes the authority of rational political philosophy to guide the law. The result will fascinate not only political theorists but also scholars at all levels with an interest in the intersection of religion and politics or in the questions that surround ethics and civic education.

Politics, Law, and Morality

Author : Vladimir Soloviev
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128371
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Law, and Morality written by Vladimir Soloviev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (1853–1900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic. His works have emerged to enjoy renewed attention in post–Soviet Russia, and his concerns echo in contemporary discussions of politics, law, and morality. In this collection of Soloviev’s essays—many translated into English for the first time—the philosopher explores an array of social issues, from the death penalty to nationalism to women’s rights. Soloviev reacts against the tradition of European rationalist thought and seeks to synthesize religious philosophy, science, and ethics in the context of a universal Christianity. In these writings he reveals the centrality of human rights in his Christian worldview, not only as an abstract theory but also as an inspiration in everyday life. In a substantive introduction and copious annotations to the essays, Vladimir Wozniuk points out distinctive and often overlooked features of Soloviev’s works while illuminating his place within both the Russian and Western intellectual traditions.

Plato's Laws

Author : Gregory Recco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001889
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Laws written by Gregory Recco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the connections among the essays and the dramatic and productive exchanges between the contributors. This volume fills a major gap in studies on Plato's dialogues by addressing the cultural and historical context of the Laws and highlighting their importance to contemporary scholarship.

Plato's 'Laws'

Author : Christopher Bobonich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493566
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Plato's 'Laws' written by Christopher Bobonich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, the essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.