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Of Rule and Office - Plato's Ideas of the Political (Hardcover)
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Of Rule and Office - Plato's Ideas of the Political (Hardcover)
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A new reading of Plato's political thought 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
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.
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