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Politics and Medicine: Plato’s Final Word Part I: Sphilosopher-Rulers and the Laws : Thing of the Past or (Un)Expected Return?

Politics and Medicine: Plato’s Final Word Part I: Sphilosopher-Rulers and the Laws : Thing of the... Recently the view that Plato moves from optimism to pessimism concerning the best sociopolitical condition has come under attack. The present article concurs that this disjunction is too simplistic and finds emphasis on the regulative status of the Republic ’s ideal of unity to be salutary. It diverges, however, on how to interpret it thus construed and the implications of its status as regulative for the Republic ’s tie to the Laws where human governance is concerned. While unity through aretē remains the guiding telos of Magnesia, the route through which it is sought diverges substantially from that of Kallipolis. This article demonstrates that it stretches the notion beyond all reasonable limits to call the Laws ’ unity an approximation of the Republic ’s and its infrastructure for communal maintenance, above all, the nocturnal council, the approximation of philosopher-rulers for which the earlier dialogue calls. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought Brill

Politics and Medicine: Plato’s Final Word Part I: Sphilosopher-Rulers and the Laws : Thing of the Past or (Un)Expected Return?

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0142-257x
eISSN
2051-2996
DOI
10.1163/20512996-90000160
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Abstract

Recently the view that Plato moves from optimism to pessimism concerning the best sociopolitical condition has come under attack. The present article concurs that this disjunction is too simplistic and finds emphasis on the regulative status of the Republic ’s ideal of unity to be salutary. It diverges, however, on how to interpret it thus construed and the implications of its status as regulative for the Republic ’s tie to the Laws where human governance is concerned. While unity through aretē remains the guiding telos of Magnesia, the route through which it is sought diverges substantially from that of Kallipolis. This article demonstrates that it stretches the notion beyond all reasonable limits to call the Laws ’ unity an approximation of the Republic ’s and its infrastructure for communal maintenance, above all, the nocturnal council, the approximation of philosopher-rulers for which the earlier dialogue calls.

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Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political ThoughtBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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