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8The 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 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 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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8Reason 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 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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5Prologue to Chapter 6: Plato’s Idea of the GoodIn 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 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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14Prologue to Chapter 1: Plato’s CaveIn 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 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 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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19Placing 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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22This 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 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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7INTRODUCTION. 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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55II—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 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 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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57Comparing 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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11CONCLUSION. 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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1Julia 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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52The 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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24Eco-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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