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4Works CitedIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 219-234. 2011.
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73. Underpinning Inertia: The Idea of NegligibilityIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 51-76. 2011.
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19Review: Baynes, The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas (review)Philosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 399. 1996.
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9The Idea of Accountable Office in Ancient Greece and BeyondPhilosophy 95 (1): 19-40. 2020.While leaders in many times and places from ancient Greece to today have been called to account, it has been claimed that leaders in ancient Athens were called to account more than any other group in history. This paper surveys the distinctive ways in which Athenian accountability procedures gave the democratic people as a whole a meaningful voice in defining, revealing, and judging the misuse of office, and in holding every single official regularly and personally accountable for their use of t…Read more
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56. The 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. 133-156. 2011.
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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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9Reason 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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6Prologue 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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9Prologue 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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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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9Prologue to Chapter 3: Plato’s Ring of GygesIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 47-50. 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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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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1NotesIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 187-218. 2011.
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8INTRODUCTION. Possibilities of Power and PurposeIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-24. 2014.
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56II—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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2IndexIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 235-246. 2011.
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62. From Greed to Glory: Ancient to Modern Ethics – and Back Again?In Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 29-46. 2011.
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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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12CONCLUSION. Futures of Greek and Roman PastsIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 313-324. 2014.
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9CHAPTER 2. ConstitutionIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 57-92. 2014.
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7Brief Biographies of Key Persons, Events and PlacesIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 333-340. 2014.
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9Athens Map KeyIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 332-332. 2014.
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13The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and HabermasPhilosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 399-401. 1996.
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59Method 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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