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Of Rule and Office : Plato's Ideas of the Political
"In this book, Melissa Lane argues that the concept of political office should be central to our understanding of Greek politics and political theory. Yet discussions of the Greeks tend to focus on courts and assemblies, or at most, on lottery as a means of selecting officeholders - without thi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Overview: Why Rule and Office? Why Plato
- Chapter 2. Rule and Office: Figures, Vocabularies, Stances
- Part II. Reconfigurations of Rule and Office
- Chapter 3. Rule and the Limits of Office (Laws)
- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of Ruler and the Place of Office (Statesman)
- Chapter 5. Defining the Telos of Rule (Republic, Book 1)
- Chapter 6. Guarding as Serving: The Conundrum of Wages in a Kallipolis (Republic, Books 1-5)
- Chapter 7. Philosophers Reigning: Rulers and Officeholders in a Kallipolis (Republic, Books 5-7)
- Part III. Degenerations of Rule and Office
- Chapter 8. The Macro Narrative: Flawed Constitutions within Cities (Republic, Book 8)
- Chapter 9. The Micro Narrative: Flawed Constitutions within Souls (Republic, Books 8-9)
- Part IV. Thematizations of Rule and Office
- Chapter 10. Against Tyranny: Plato on Freedom, Friendship, and the Place of Law
- Chapter 11. Against Anarchy: The Horizon of Platonic Rule
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Selected Greek Terms
- Bibliography
- Index