Plato's Second Republic (eBook)

An Essay on the Laws

Andre Laks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23606-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An argument for why Plato's Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, Andre Laks argues that the Laws, Plato's last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the Republic in historical relevance. Laks offers a thorough reappraisal of this less renowned text, and examines how it provides a critical foundation for the principles of lawmaking. In doing so, he makes clear the tremendous impact the Laws had not only on political philosophy, but also on modern political history.Laks shows how the four central ideas in the Lawsthe corruptibility of unchecked power, the rule of law, a ';middle' constitution, and the political necessity of legislative preamblesare articulated within an intricate and masterful literary architecture. He reveals how the work develops a theological conception of law anchored in political ideas about a god, divine reason, that is the measure of political order. Laks's reading opens a complex analysis of the relationships between rulers and citizens; their roles in a political system; the power of reason and persuasion, as opposed to force, in commanding obedience; and the place of freedom.Plato's Second Republic presents a sophisticated reevaluation of a philosophical work that has exerted an enormous if often hidden influence even into the present day.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Adornment • Aeschylus • Against Apion • Analogy • Analytics • Aristotle • assonance • Bonus Bill of 1817 • Book • cardinal virtues • Circumlocution • clause • Coaching • concave function • Condition of possibility • Consideration • Constitutionalism • Corruption • cowardice • Criticism • critique • Critique of Pure Reason • Deliberation • Demiurge • despotism • Electoral College • Essay • Explanation • Family resemblance • Feeling • glaucon • hamartia • heteronomy • hypothesis • Impossibility • Impracticability • Instant-runoff voting • involuntary servitude • Ipso facto • Irony • Irrationality • Krater • Lawgiver (Judge Dredd) • Legislation • Letter of resignation • Necessity • Network Theory • New Laws • Nomos (sociology) • Noocracy • nous • Obedience (human behavior) • observational study • of education • On the Soul • Ontology • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Payment • Persuasion • Philebus • Philosophy • Philosophy of Life • Pindar • Plato • Platonic realism • Posidonius • Preamble • Preverb • Probability • Prose • Psychology • Quantity • Question of law • reason • Recommendation (European Union) • referent • Republic (Plato) • Reputation • result • ring of gyges • Rule of Law • Ruler • Sensitivity Analysis • Separation of Powers • Skellam distribution • Slavery • SOPHISM • Sophist (dialogue) • stevedore • Substantial form • Theory of Justification • The Other Hand • Thomas Paine • Thought • Trichotomy (philosophy) • Truth and Justice • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland • United States federal judge • virtue • Zaleucus
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23606-2 / 0691236062
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23606-3 / 9780691236063