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57II—Plato on the Value of Knowledge in RulingAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (1): 49-67. 2018.This paper transposes for evaluation in relation to the concerns of Plato’s Politicus a claim developed by Verity Harte in the context of his Philebus, that ‘external imposition of a practical aim would in some way corrupt paideutic [philosophical] knowledge’. I argue that the Politicus provides a case for which the Philebus distinction may not allow: ruling, or statecraft, as embodying a form of knowledge that can be answerable to practical norms in a way that does not necessarily subordinate o…Read more
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5Plato's Political Philosophy: The Republic, the Statesman, and the LawsIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.This chapter contains sections titled: The Laws Conclusion Bibliography.
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The all-affected principle and climate changeIn Archon Fung & Sean W. D. Gray (eds.), Empowering affected interests: democratic inclusion in a globalized world, Cambridge University Press. 2024.
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8Response to comments: Of Rule and Office:_ _Plato’s ideas of the politicalHistory of European Ideas. forthcoming.
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7Plato’s Statesman: a Philosophical Discussion (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021."Plato's Statesman reconsiders many questions familiar to readers of the Republic: questions in political theory - such as the qualifications for the leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia) - as well as questions of philosophical methodology and epistemology. Instead of the theory of Forms that is the centrepiece of the epistemology of the Republic, the emphasis here is on the dialectical practice of collection and division (diairesis), in whose service the interlocuto…Read more
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38Method and Politics in Plato’s StatesmanCambridge University Press. 1998.Among Plato's works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a special place of its own. Whereas Plato is usually thought of as defending unchanging knowledge, Dr Lane demonstrates how, by placing change at the heart of political affairs, Plato reconceives the link between knowledge and authority. The statesman is shown to master the timing of affairs of state, and to use this expertise in managing the conflict …Read more
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18Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the PoliticalPrinceton University Press. 2023.A new reading of Plato’s political thought Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between ruler…Read more
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11Greek and Roman political ideasPelican, an imprint of Penguin Books. 2014.Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King's College. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of classics, and the historian Richard Tuck called her book Eco-Republic 'a virtuoso performance by one of our best scholars of ancient philosophy.'
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13Plato's Statesman: a philosophical discussion (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021."Plato's Statesman reconsiders many questions familiar to readers of the Republic: questions in political theory - such as the qualifications for the leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia) - as well as questions of philosophical methodology and epistemology. Instead of the theory of Forms that is the centrepiece of the epistemology of the Republic, the emphasis here is on the dialectical practice of collection and division (diairesis), in whose service the interlocuto…Read more
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56The Evolution of eirōneia in Classical Greek Texts: Why Socratic eirōneia is Not Socratic IronyOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 49-83. 2006.
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85. The City and the SoulIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 101-126. 2011.
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7Prologue to Chapter 6: Plato’s Idea of the GoodIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 127-132. 2011.
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10Prologue to Chapter 7: Revisiting Plato’s CaveIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 159-162. 2011.
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11Reason and argument in Plato and Aristotle - (d.) Scott listening to reason in Plato and Aristotle. Pp. X + 268. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2020. Cased, £65, us$85. Isbn: 978-0-19-886332-8 (review)The Classical Review 72 (1): 70-72. 2022.
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5Prologue to Chapter 5: Plato on Why Virtue MattersIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 99-100. 2011.
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15Prologue to Chapter 1: Plato’s CaveIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-6. 2011.
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5Prologue to Chapter 4: Post-Platonic Perspectives on the RepublicIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 79-82. 2011.
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22Placing Plato in the history of libertyHistory of European Ideas 44 (6): 702-718. 2018.ABSTRACTThis paper explores and reevaluates the place of Plato in the history of liberty. In the first half, reevaluating the view that he invents a concept of ‘positive liberty’ in the Republic, I argue for two claims: that he does not do so, insofar as this is not the way that virtuous psychological self-mastery in the Republic is understood, and that the Republic works primarily with the inverse concept of slavery, relying on entrenched Greek ideas about the badness of the status of being a s…Read more
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94. Meet Plato’s RepublicIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 83-98. 2011.
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24This article rejects the claim made by other scholars that Plato in the Statesman, by employing the so-called ‘architect’ (ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων) in one of the early divisions leading to the definition of political expertise, prefigured and anticipated the architectonic conception of political expertise advanced by Aristotle. It argues for an alternative reading in which Plato in the Statesman, and in the only other of his works (Gorgias) in which the word appears, closely tracks the existing social role…Read more
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3John R. Wallach, The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (2): 147-149. 2003.
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61Comparing Greek and Chinese Political Thought: The Case of Plato’s RepublicJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (4): 585-601. 2009.No Abstract
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20Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos by George DukeJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2): 329-330. 2021.In this excellent book, drawing on previously published articles, George Duke gathers the scattered threads of Aristotle's discussions of law while defending clear stances in the various philosophical debates they have engendered. The book works within Aristotelian methodology and metaphysics, developing the view that a politeia should be understood as a formal cause that is worked out in terms of the successive definitions offered in book III of Politics. Building on studies of the evolution of…Read more
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