Overcoming uncertainty in ancient Greek political philosophy / J. Noel Hubler.
Hubler, J. Noel, author.
2021
JC73 .H83 2021
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Title Overcoming uncertainty in ancient Greek political philosophy / J. Noel Hubler.
Author Hubler, J. Noel, author.
ISBN 9783030820916 (electronic bk.)
3030820912 (electronic bk.)
3030820904
9783030820909
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82091-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-82091-6 doi
Call Number JC73 .H83 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
Summary Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy makes an historical and theoretical contribution by explaining the role of opinion in ancient Greek political philosophy, showing its importance for Aristotle's theory of deliberation, and indicating a new model for a deliberative republic. Currently, there are no studies of opinion in ancient Greek political theory and so the book breaks new historical ground. The book establishes that opinion is key for the political theories of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics because each sees uncertainty as a problem that needs to be overcome if one is to establish a virtuous polity. Since they have different notions of the nature of the uncertainty of opinion, they develop very different political strategies to overcome it. The book explains that Plato's and the Stoics' analyses of uncertainty support oligarchy and monarchy, respectively, and that theoretical support for deliberate politics requires a more nuanced understanding of uncertainty that only Aristotle provides.
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Chapter 1. The Development of True Opinion in Platos Late Dialogues
Chapter 2: The art of due measure at work in Magnesia
Chapter 3: Aristotle and Complexities of Opinion
Chapter 4: Aristotles Many Republics
Chapter 5: The Stoic Rejection of Objective Uncertainty
Chapter 6: Stoic Natural Law and the Universal Cities
Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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