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  title info:
    title: Tragedy, philosophy, and political education in Plato's laws
  name:
    name part: Balot, Ryan K. (Ryan Krieger)
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 425 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens whose judgment is typically unsound? In a searching and provocative analysis, Ryan Balot addresses these timely - though universal - political questions by offering a novel interpretation of Plato's Laws. Turning to the ancient past is essential to reinvigorating our contemporary understanding of these all-important issues. Previous readers have either celebrated the work's idealism or denounced its totalitarianism. Balot, by contrast, refuses to interpret the dialogue as a political blueprint, whether admirable or misguided. He shows instead that it constitutes Plato's greatest philosophical investigation of political life. In this transformative re-appraisal, Balot reveals that Plato's goal was to cultivate a tragic attitude toward our political passions, commitments, and aspirations. The result is a profound political inquiry with far-reaching consequences."--
  table of contents: Introduction : interpreting Plato's laws. The Athenian's ambitions and ambivalence ; Scholarly approaches and methods ; Who Is the Athenian stranger? ; The argument -- The character of Kleinias. The education of Kleinias as a framework for the dialogue ; Kleinias at first sight : cynical, fearful, acquisitive, thumoeidetic ; Down to the foundations : Kleinias' materialism ; The Athenian's teleological reply : souls, goats, symposia, and cities ; Communities of practice : goats, symposia, and cities ; Kleinias' tyrannical ambitions ; Consonance achieved through the advent of a "God" -- The politics and psychology of human history. The archaeology of Kleinias : early human history ; The early history of Lacedaimon and the Dorians ; The regime's goal : a retrospective account ; Ignorance and wisdom : a new interpretation ; Fortifying the law against tyrants ; The self-destructiveness of Persian tyranny ; Reinterpreting democracy in archaic Athens -- A new beginning : founding Magnesia. The "existential" framework ; The true legislator and the young tyrant ; Religion and the new regime ; Rule of law, rule of Nous ; Thrasymachus' challenge and the seven titles to rule ; Conclusion : direct and indirect rule -- Persuasive preambles. Preambles and the two doctors at a glance ; Persuasion versus force : revisiting the case of the young tyrant ; The Athenian's purposes : "tameness" and "savagery" ; Hesiod and the Athenian on the benefits of virtue ; The lawgiver and the poets ; "Caring" legislation : persuasion toward eudaimonism ; Free doctor and slave doctor : persuasion, trust, and nature ; Reason and emotion in the preambles ; Demonstrative preambles : the use of philosophical dialectic ; Conclusion : the legislator's judgment -- The "second-best" regime : human nature, property, and acquisitiveness. Purifying the citizen body ; Magnesia and Callipolis ; The second wave, producers, and private property ; Socrates on curbing acquisitiveness ; Magnesia's private property r…
  note: Ryan K. Balot.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Greece
  subject:
    topic: Ancient
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JC71.P264 B35 2024eb
  classification: 321/.07
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    title info:
      title: Tragedy, philosophy, and political education in Plato's laws
    name:
      name part: Balot, Ryan K. (Ryan Krieger), 1969-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023056713
    identifier: (OCoLC)1417081692
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231221
    record change date: 20260319204331.6
    record identifier: in00005726641
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng