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Ruling Bodies centers around an epochal ontological shift in ideas
that changed the nature and the meaning of coercion in modern
political thought. It begins with a review of Foucault, Arendt, and
Habermas, and points out a discrepancy in the way each thinker
understood coercion in modern politics. From here, Varma dives into
the works of Plato to provide a framework and context for thinking
about this. Through a detailed examination of the Republic, the
Laws, and the Gorgias, Ruling Bodies offers us the first
comprehensive account of coercion in Plato's thought. As the author
shows, each dialogue is a demonstration of a particular style of
Platonic statecraft that corresponds to the amount of power the
philosopher holds in a city. The Republic demonstrates how a
philosopher would rule as a monarch; the Laws demonstrates his rule
when he must share power with other spirited oligarchs; and the
Gorgias demonstrates his rule in a democracy where power belongs to
the people. In all three dialogues, Varma argues that the
philosopher's logos sought to bridge the passions of man with the
heavenly bodies, and coercion was merely a supplementary tool to
help achieve this end. When Hobbes recast the cosmos as matter,
form, and power, however, the soul gets reduced to a material body,
and the aim of logos was not to bridge the passions of man with the
heavens, but to make the body obedient to power.
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