Of rule and office : Plato's ideas of the political / Melissa Lane.
"Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office a...
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Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction. Overview : why rule and office? : why Plato
- Rule and Office : figures, vocabularies, stances
- Part II: Reconfigurations of rule and office. Rule and the limits of office (Laws)
- Rethinking the role of ruler and the place of office (Statesman)
- Defining the telos of rule (Republic, Book 1)
- Guarding as serving : the conundrum of wages in a Kallipolis (Republic, Books 1-5)
- Part III: Degenerations of rule and office. The macro narrative : flawed constitutions within cities (Republic, Book 8)
- The micro narrative : flawed constitutions within souls (Republic, Books 8-9)
- Part IV: Thematizations of rule and office. Against tyranny : Plato on freedom, friendship, and the place of law
- Against anarchy : the horizon of Platonic rule.