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Verfasst von:Lane, Melissa S. [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Of rule and office
Titelzusatz:Plato's ideas of the political
Verf.angabe:Melissa Lane
Verlagsort:Princeton ; Oxford
Verlag:Princeton University Press
E-Jahr:2023
Jahr:[2023]
Umfang:xi, 461 Seiten
ISBN:978-0-691-19215-4
Abstract:"In this book, Melissa Lane argues that the concept of political office should be central to our understanding of Greek politics and political theory. Yet discussions of the Greeks tend to focus on courts and assemblies, or at most, on lottery as a means of selecting officeholders - without thinking about their powers of command or about how they were held accountable. Meanwhile, discussions of Plato's Republic and Statesman tend to ignore the profound extent to which his understanding of politics was articulated in terms of the vocabulary and practice of officeholding, on the one hand, and an interrogation of whether these were adequate to a full understanding of ruling, on the other. In The Origins of Political Office: Ancient Greek Ideas of Ruling and Being Ruled, based on the 2018 Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford, Melissa Lane explores public office as a principal building block of Greek political ideas that lies at the intersection of command and accountability. In this way, she argues, the normative conception of office was not a form of absolute rule, but rather always constrained by the ruled, who held them accountable through elections and various forms of review. In return, the ruled gave up some of their freedom by agreeing to obey their rulers. Lane weaves together the role played by this understanding of office in key historical moments, especially but not only in Athens, with its use and rethinking by the philosophers particularly Plato. She does so with novel attention to the absence and abuse of office in various dimensions: from anarchy to tyranny. The book offers a path-breaking interpretation of the relationship between office-holding and ruling, of the meaning of ruling and being ruled, and of the significance of office in political theory and practice both in ancient Greece and with reference to today"--
Schlagwörter:(p)Plato   i / (s)Politische Philosophie   i
Sprache:eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lane, Melissa S., 1966 - : Of rule and office. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 461 Seiten)
Sach-SW:Droit - Aspect politique
 Law - Philosophy
 Political and social views
K10plus-PPN:1854169998
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