Plato's reverent city : the laws and the politics of authority
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Plato's reverent city : the laws and the politics of authority
（Recovering political philosophy）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Reverence and the Politics of AuthorityChapter 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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