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Plato is often reproached for having a distorted view of democracy due to prejudice and an elitist philosophical approach. Such objections are not utterly groundless, but they miss the gist of the matter. One of the main aims of this study is to show that, while conceiving his critique of democracy, Plato has a clear perception of its development and elements. A further objective is to demonstrate how he draws on democratic ideology to advance his own political theory. Accordingly, this book will expose numerous intertextual connections of Plato with other authors of this epoch. The first and greater part of this study reveals how in the "Gorgias" Plato gives a detailed account on the process of democratic man's transformation into tyrannical man. The second part examines the parallels between this dialogue and the "Republic". Thus, Plato's intimate knowledge of democratic ideology shows that his criticism of phenomena such as absolute freedom, demagoguery (populism), glorification of power, traditional politics etc. remains relevant.
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"… a valuable contribution to Platonic scholarship." Anders Dahl Sørensen, Sehepunkte 20, 09/2020
"[...] eine für die Platon-Interpretation wegweisende Monographie [...] " Otto Eckart, Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 2020
ISSN 2196-0070
Herausgegeben von Ulrich Gotter (Konstanz), Matthias Haake (Bonn), Nino Luraghi (Oxford) und Kai Trampedach (Heidelberg).
Monarchy, i.e. a political order characterized by a single ruler, was a frequent occurrence in the ancient world. The way it was embedded in the several cultures however varied deeply. Whereas in the Ancient Near East and in the Germanic kingdoms of Late Antiquity monarchy was the normal and accepted way of organizing political power, among the Greeks and Romans monarchic regimes were essentially precarious and developed as secondary formations within political orders that were radically different and incompatible with it in structural and normative terms, such as the Greek polis and the Roman respublica. These conditions in their turn produced fundamental differences in the way monarchy was understood and represented in the different cultural contexts and in different periods.
Such differences can best be observed by way of historical comparison, which is the purpose of the series Studies in Ancient Monarchies. The series intends to include works that facilitate comparison by the explicit recourse to methods from the social and literary sciences, discussing various different cases or focusing on one particular monarchy, in order to contribute to a broader debate on monarchy as a specific phenomenon of ancient politics and culture.
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