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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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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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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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5Julia Annas, the morality of happiness (new York and oxford, oxford university press, 1993), £45. Isbn 0 19 507999x (review)Polis 13 (1-2): 153-156. 1994.
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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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27Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable LivingPrinceton University Press. 2011."This edition of Eco-Republic is published by arrangement with Peter Lang Ltd; first published in 2011 by Peter Lang Ltd"--T.p. verso.
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17Why history of ideas at all?History of European Ideas 28 (1): 33-41. 2002.This article suggests that the enterprise of Mark Bevir's book (The Logic of the History of Ideas, Cambridge, 1999), is the reverse of what his title implies. Bevir seeks not to delineate the peculiar logic of a specialised subfield of history called the ‘history of ideas’, but rather the logic which underlies historical pursuit considered in general as the ‘explanation of belief’. If this is so, then the relationship between belief, meaning, and speech act in intellectual texts, and the task an…Read more
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4Virtue as the Love of Knowledge in Plato's Symposium and Republic'In Myles Burnyeat & Dominic Scott (eds.), Maieusis: essays in ancient philosophy in honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. pp. 44--67. 2007.
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58The Origins of the Statesman–Demagogue Distinction in and after Ancient AthensJournal of the History of Ideas 73 (2): 179-200. 2012.
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11The Utopianism of Hamilton's State of Needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politicsSouth African Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 242-248. 2006.
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104States of nature, epistemic and politicalProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (2). 1999.The paper asks what is living in political state-of-nature approaches, and answers by way of considering recent epistemic uses of state-of-nature arguments. Using Edward Craig's idea that a concept of knowledge can be explicated from the need for good informants, I argue that a concept of authority can be explicated from a parallel need for good practical informants. But this need not justify rule of a Platonic elite. Practically relevant epistemic advantages are more likely to be secured by the…Read more
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22Review of Kenneth M. Sayre, Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (2). 2007.
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73Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?History of Philosophy Quarterly 16 (2). 1999.
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15Response to MatthewJ. Gibney,'A Thousand Little Guantanamos'In Kate E. Tunstall (ed.), Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004, Oxford University Press. pp. 170. 2006.
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13Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern MindBloomsbury Publishing. 2015.Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the hear…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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27. Initiative and Individuals: A Platonic Political ProjectIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 163-186. 2011.
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5CHAPTER 5. CitizenshipIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 181-214. 2014.
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26Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism: Catching Sextus out?History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2. 1999.Prima facie, the sceptical procedure described in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism I is committed to a gap between appearance and reality, that is, to the possibility that reality is other than it appears. But the Pyrrhonist is keen to avoid having commitments. In this paper, we consider whether the Pyrrhonist is indeed so committed; what, more precisely, the commitment might be; and whether it is the kind of commitment which can be dislodged in the way the Pyrrhonist advertises as the w…Read more
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21The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They MatterPrinceton University Press. 2014.A lively and accessible introduction to the Greek and Roman origins of our political ideas In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch to Cicero, Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was a story as much of individuals as ideas. Scouring …Read more
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34Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politics, the practice of politics in Plato and Proclus, the politics of…Read more
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