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Plato on Democracy and Political Technē

by Anders Sorensen
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004312005
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: USD 160.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: LAM BLG
  • Item Weight: 431 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

In Plato on Democracy and Political technē S rensen argues that the question of democracy's 'epistemic potential' was one that Plato took more seriously than is usually assumed. While he famously rejected democracy on the basis of its inherent inability to accommodate political expertise (technē), he did not think that this failure on democracy's part was necessarily inevitable but a concept that required further examination. S rensen shows that in a number of his most important dialogues (Republic, Gorgias, Statesman, Protagoras, Theaetetus), Plato was ready to take up the question of democracy's epistemic potential and to enter into strikingly technical and sophisticated discussions of what both rule by technē and rule by the people would have to look like in order for the two things to be compatible.

Anders Dahl Sørensen, Ph.D. (2014), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, currently holds a Post-doctoral position at the SAXO-institute, University of Copenhagen. He works on ancient Greek political and legal thought.

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