Liberty, democracy, and the temptations to tyranny in the Dialogues of Plato:
"The democratic context of the Platonic Dialogues is extraordinarily complicated. When Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, the people also lost their democratic constitution for a brief but brutal time. Plato wrote his dialogues and founded his Academy in the early days of Athens's newly re...
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Zusammenfassung: | "The democratic context of the Platonic Dialogues is extraordinarily complicated. When Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, the people also lost their democratic constitution for a brief but brutal time. Plato wrote his dialogues and founded his Academy in the early days of Athens's newly restored democratic regime, the regime that executed Socrates. But, he set most of the dialogues in the days leading up to Athens's downfall. Plato presents Socrates as so deeply committed to Athens that he would not consider living anywhere else, even if the alternative is death. But, the critiques of democracy Socrates voices in the dialogues are almost as sharp as his critiques of tyranny, which he sets up clearly as the worst of all regimes. How does one reconcile Socrates's love of democratic Athens with his open hostility for democracy? The answer may lie less in democracy's inherent short-comings and more in its vulnerabilities to corruption. The democratic soul and state are not oriented to one focused end. Instead, they are beautiful, unpredictable, free, and often chaotic. Such chaos may make a democracy the regime least likely to kill a philosopher, but it also appears to be the regime most likely to foster the development of a tyrant. In this volume of essays, based on the 2019 A. V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas at Mercer University, eleven scholars take up some of the complex questions that emerge when one considers carefully how Plato presents democracy and liberty in the dialogues and the particular threats they seem to pose to justice and philosophy"-- |
Beschreibung: | "This collection of essays is based on the 2019 A.V. Elliott Conference for Great Books and Ideas, the 12th annual conference sponsored by the McDonald Center for America' s Founding Principles, entitled "Liberty and Tyranny in Plato"--Acknowledgements |
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adam_text | CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction Charlotte C. S. Thomas xi Plato on the Connection between Liberty and Tyranny Catherine Zuckert 1 The Socratic Turn to Alcibiades Alex Priou 22 Pity the Tyrant Nicholas D. Smith 42 Plato on the Tyrannical Temptation Richard Ruderman 59 The Myth of the Tripartite Soul in Plato’s Republic Devin Stauffer 80 Socrates’ Critique of Homer’s Education in the Republic Peter Ahrensdorf 90 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Critique of Women: Plato’s Gorgias and Protagoras on Female Injustice Mary Townsend Notes on the Character of Calli des Kevin Honeycutt 121 146
Gorgias as Reductio ad absurdum Argument: Socrates, True Politician but Failed Teacher? Jeffrey Dirk Wilson 171 Liberty, Tyranny, and the Family in Plato and Machiavelli Khalil Habib 194 The Worst and Less Humane Way: The Platonic Condemnation of a Criminal Justice System Like Ours Jennifer Baker Index 219 237 VI
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction Charlotte C. S. Thomas xi Plato on the Connection between Liberty and Tyranny Catherine Zuckert 1 The Socratic Turn to Alcibiades Alex Priou 22 Pity the Tyrant Nicholas D. Smith 42 Plato on the Tyrannical Temptation Richard Ruderman 59 The Myth of the Tripartite Soul in Plato’s Republic Devin Stauffer 80 Socrates’ Critique of Homer’s Education in the Republic Peter Ahrensdorf 90 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Critique of Women: Plato’s Gorgias and Protagoras on Female Injustice Mary Townsend Notes on the Character of Calli des Kevin Honeycutt 121 146
Gorgias as Reductio ad absurdum Argument: Socrates, True Politician but Failed Teacher? Jeffrey Dirk Wilson 171 Liberty, Tyranny, and the Family in Plato and Machiavelli Khalil Habib 194 The Worst and Less Humane Way: The Platonic Condemnation of a Criminal Justice System Like Ours Jennifer Baker Index 219 237 VI |
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