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| Author | : Gerald M. Mara |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780791432990 |
Focusing on the speeches and actions of the Platonic Socrates, this book argues that Plato's political philosophy is a crucial source for reflection on the hazards and possibilities of democratic politics.
| Author | : Gerald M. Mara |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2008-07-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0791477991 |
This book argues that classical political philosophy, represented in the works of Thucydides and Plato, is an important resource for both contemporary democratic political theory and democratic citizens. By placing the Platonic dialogues and Thucydides' History in conversation with four significant forms of modern democratic theory—the rational choice perspective, deliberative democratic theory, the interpretation of democratic culture, and postmodernism—Gerald M. Mara contends that these classical authors are not enemies of democracy. Rather than arguing for the creation of a more encompassing theoretical framework guided by classical concerns, Mara offers readings that emphasize the need to focus critically on the purposes of politics, and therefore of democracy, as controversial yet unavoidable questions for political theory.
| Author | : Joel Alden Schlosser |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2014-07-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107067421 |
This book challenges popular modern views of Socrates by examining the political significance of his activity in ancient Athens.
| Author | : Eugene H. Perry |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2011-06-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1462019897 |
This is the story of a reform minded man who translated his interest in liberal education and academic freedom into a unique interpretation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although he died in 1964 his interpretation is still being applied to free speech cases that come before the U.S. Supreme Court. In the early days of the 20th century he was Dean at Brown University, President of Amherst College and founder of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin. In the xenophobic aftermath of World War II he became a national leader in defense of political speech. This led him into a dialogue with justices of the Supreme Court, despite the fact he had no formal training in the law. His theory of the First Amendment holds that its provision for free speech exists as much for the publics need to hear and know as it does for the individuals right to speak.
| Author | : James L. Kastely |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 022627862X |
J. Kastely makes the case for Plato’s Republic as a self-consciously rhetorical work exploring a fundamental problem for philosophy. He argues that the Republic is a mimetic poem responding to a discursive crisis within democracy, namely, the absence of a genuinely persuasive defense of justice. Understanding the Republic as a work that raises persuasion as a key problem for philosophy requires us to rethink Plato’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. This is a major and provocative reconsideration of the relationship of philosophy and rhetoric and raises issues central to a wide range of scholarly fields, from political theory to psychology to aesthetics.
| Author | : Benedetto Fontana |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2004-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0271032898 |
In their efforts to uncover the principles of a robust conception of democracy, theorists of deliberative democracy place a premium on the role of political expression—public speech and reasoned debate—as the key to democratic processes. They also frequently hark back to historical antecedents (as in the Habermasian invocation of the “public sphere” of eighteenth-century bourgeois society and the Arendtian valorization of the classical Athenian polis) in their quest to establish that deliberative procedures are more than “merely theoretical” and instead have a practical application. But for all this emphasis on the discursive and historical dimensions of democracy, these theorists have generally neglected the rich resources available in the history of rhetorical theory and practice. It is the purpose of Talking Democracy to resurrect this history and show how attention to rhetoric can help lead to a better understanding of both the strengths and limitations of current theories of deliberative democracy. Contributors, besides the editors, are Russell Bentley, Tsae Lan Lee Dow, Tom Murphy, Arlene Saxonhouse, Gary Shiffman, John Uhr, Nadia Urbinati, John von Heyking, and Douglas Walton.
| Author | : Mary P. Nichols |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1987-07-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1438414676 |
This book takes a fresh look at Socrates as he appeared to three ancient writers: Aristophanes, who attacked him for his theoretical studies; Plato, who immortalized him in his dialogues; and Aristotle, who criticized his political views. It addresses the questions of the interrelation of politics and philosophy by looking at Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Republic, and Book II of Aristotle's Politics—three sides of a debate on the value of Socrates' philosophic life. Mary Nichols first discusses the relation between Aristophanes and Plato, showing that the city as Socrates' place of activity in the Republic resembles the philosophic thinktank mocked in Aristophanes' Clouds. By representing the extremes of the Republic's city, Plato shows that the dangers attributed by Aristophanes to the city are actually inherent in political life itself. They were to be moderated by Socratic political philosophy rather than Aristophanean comedy. Nichols concludes by showing how Aristotle addressed the question at issue between Plato and Aristophanes when he founded his political science. Judging Plato's and Aristophanes' positions as partial, Nichols argues that Aristotle based his political science on the necessity to philosophy of political involvement and the necessity to politics of philosophical thought.
| Author | : Richard Kraut |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780691022413 |
This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue.
| Author | : John R. Wallach |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2015-12-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0271031026 |
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as having the potential for contributing to democratic discourse about ethics and politics today. The author argues that Plato articulates and "solves" his Socratic Problem in his various dialogues in different but potentially complementary ways. The book effectively extracts Plato from the straightjacket of Platonism and from the interpretive perspectives of the past fifty years—principally those of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, M. I. Finley, Jacques Derrida, and Gregory Vlastos. The author’s distinctive approach for understanding Plato—and, he argues, for the history of political theory in general—can inform contemporary theorizing about democracy, opening pathways for criticizing democracy on behalf of virtue, justice, and democracy itself.
| Author | : Jon Elster |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1998-03-28 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780521596961 |
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.
