Of Rule and Office : : Plato's Ideas of the Political / / Melissa Lane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Lane, Melissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Part I Introduction --; Chapter one. Overview why rule and office? why Plato? --; Chapter two. Rule and Office: figures, vocabularies, stances --; Part II Reconfigurations of Rule and Office --; Chapter three. Rule and the Limits of Office (Laws) --; Chapter four. Rethinking the Role of Ruler and the Place of Office (Statesman) --; Chapter five. Defining the Telos of Rule (Republic, Book 1) --; Chapter six. Guarding as Serving the conundrum of wages in a Kallipolis (republic, books 1–5) --; Chapter seven. Philosophers Reigning rulers and officeholders in a Kallipolis (republic, books 5–7) --; Part III Degenerations of Rule and Office --; Chapter eight. The Macro Narrative flawed constitutions within cities (republic, book 8) --; Chapter nine. The Micro Narrative flawed constitutions within souls (republic, books 8–9) --; Part IV Thematizations of Rule and Office --; Chapter ten. Against Tyranny Plato on freedom, friendship, and the place of law --; Chapter eleven. Against Anarchy the horizon of platonic rule --; Acknowledgments --; Glossary of selected Greek terms --; Bibliography --; Index --; A note on the type
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691237855; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319223; 9783111318646; 9783110749748
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691237855?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Melissa Lane.

A new reading of Plato’s political thoughtPlato 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 as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled, Plato’s major political dialogues—the Republic, the Statesman, and Laws—explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule.Lane argues that taking Plato’s interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato’s account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic, Greek, and contemporary political thought.