Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political by Melissa Lane Paperback Boo

Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule?. 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.

Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political by Melissa Lane Paperback Boo

Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule?. 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.

Melissa Lane Of Rule and Office (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

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. Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge.

Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political by Melissa Lane Paperback Boo

Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule?. 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.

Of Rule and Office by Melissa Lane – 9780691242705

ISBN-13: 9780691242705, 978-0691242705. 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.

Melissa Lane Of Rule and Office (Paperback)

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. Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge.