Plato's Reverent city : the laws and the politics of authority / Robert A. Ballingall.
Ballingall, Robert A. author.
2023
JA71 .B35 2023
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Title Plato's Reverent city : the laws and the politics of authority / Robert A. Ballingall.
Author Ballingall, Robert A. author.
ISBN 9783031313035 (electronic bk.)
3031313038 (electronic bk.)
9783031313028
303131302X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31303-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-31303-5 doi
Call Number JA71 .B35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
Summary This book offers an original interpretation of Plato's Laws and a new account of its enduring importance. Ballingall argues that the republican regime conceived in the Laws is built on "reverence," an archaic virtue governing emotions of self-assessment -- particularly awe and shame. Ballingall demonstrates how learning to feel these emotions in the right way, at the right time, and for the right things is the necessary basis for the rule of law conceived in the dialogue. The Laws remains surprisingly neglected in the scholarly literature, although this is changing. The cynical populisms haunting liberal democracies are focusing new attention on the "characterological" basis of constitutional government and Plato's Laws remains an indispensable resource on this question, especially when we attend to the theme of reverence at its core. Robert Ballingall is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine, USA. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University and Allan Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Research in Classical Political Thought at the University of Toronto, where he also earned his PhD.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 19, 2023).
Series Recovering political philosophy, 2524-7174
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Chapter 1. Reverence and the Politics of Authority
Chapter 2. Plato's Laws and the Enigma of Godlikeness
Chapter 3. Classical Utopianism in Plato's Laws
Chapter 4. The Athenian's Rehabilitation of Tragedy
Chapter 5. Reverence and the Disunity of Political Virtue
Chapter 6. Epilogue.

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