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3CHAPTER 8. SovereigntyIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 285-312. 2014.
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10Argument and agreement in Plato's CritoHistory of Political Thought 19 (3): 313-330. 1998.It is argued that the Crito hinges on the relation between words and deeds. Socrates sets out a standard of agreement reached through persuasive argument or words. In this case the argument is deliberative: a general shared principle (do not do wrong) is juxtaposed to a particular minor premise (this act of escape is wrong) to reach a conclusion (do not escape). Crito baulks at the perception of the minor premise. At this juncture the Laws of Athens are introduced, who set out a standard of agre…Read more
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2Honesty as the best policy : Nietzsche on redlichkeit and the contrast between stoic and epicurean strategies of the selfIn Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis & Sara Rushing (eds.), Histories of Postmodernism, Routledge. 2007.
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7Does Rational Ignorance Imply Smaller Government, or Smarter Democratic Innovation?Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 27 (3): 350-361. 2015.Ilya Somin argues that in light of the public's rational political ignorance we should make government smaller. But his account of the phenomenon of rational ignorance does not justify his policy prescription of smaller government; on the contrary, it implies that we should revamp the current framework of democratic institutions. This is because, since Somin fails to set out a principled basis on which to value democracy even in the face of rational ignorance, he cannot explain why we should wan…Read more
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4CHAPTER 3. DemocracyIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 93-128. 2014.
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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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6When the experts are uncertain: Scientific knowledge and the ethics of democratic judgmentEpisteme 11 (1): 97-118. 2014.Can ordinary citizens in a democracy evaluate the claims of scientific experts? While a definitive answer must be case by case, some scholars have offered sharply opposed general answers: a skeptical versus an optimistic. The article addresses this basic conflict, arguing that a satisfactory answer requires a first-order engagement in judging the claims of experts which both skeptics and optimists rule out in taking the issue to be one of second-order assessments only. Having argued that such fi…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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13Of 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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2Plato'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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17Political philosophy: The view from cambridgeJournal of Political Philosophy 10 (1). 2002.This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001
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3Sophocles, Sisterhood, and IndividualitySophocles and the Language of Tragedy, by GoldhillSimon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 296 pp.Antigone, Interrupted, by HonigBonnie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 321 pp.Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, by StraussJonathan. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013, 216 pp (review)Political Theory 43 (1): 118-127. 2015.
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2Reference List and AbbreviationsIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 341-356. 2014.
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14. 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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1MapsIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. 2014.
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31. Introduction: Inertia as Failure of the Political ImaginationIn Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, Princeton University Press. pp. 7-26. 2011.
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4GlossaryIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. pp. 327-331. 2014.
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4FiguresIn The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton University Press. 2014.
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3« emplois pour philosophes » : l'art politique et l'étranger dans le politique à la lumière de Socrate et du philosophe dans le ThéétèteLes Etudes Philosophiques 3 (3): 325-345. 2005.Cet article examine les relations entre deux dialogues tardifs de Platon à partir de la notion de juste mesure. Dans le Politique, cette notion intervient dans le cadre d’une distinction entre deux types de métrétiques, dont l’Étranger renvoie toutefois la discussion détaillée à une autre occasion. La thèse ici défendue est que cette autre occasion est le Philèbe, dont l’argumentation complexe peut être lue comme une clarification de la notion de mesure. Ce rapprochement permet d’éclairer deux a…Read more
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9Doing Our Own Thinking for Ourselves: On Quentin Skinner's Genealogical TurnJournal of the History of Ideas 73 (1): 71-82. 2012.
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2DIALOGUE IN PLATO - Long Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato. Pp. viii + 184. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Cased, £30, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-19-969535-5 (review)The Classical Review 64 (2): 395-397. 2014.
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