Book Review: Plato as Critical Theorist, by Jonny Thakkar
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 47, Heft 5, S. 738-744
ISSN: 1552-7476
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 47, Heft 5, S. 738-744
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: The review of politics, Band 79, Heft 1, S. 125-128
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The review of politics, Band 79, Heft 1, S. 125-128
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Global discourse: an interdisciplinary journal of current affairs and applied contemporary thought, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 242-257
ISSN: 2043-7897
This article examines Plato's critique of, and revisions to, Socratic rationality via a close examination of Socrates' teaching about the early education of the guardians in the Republic. I argue that Plato's move to a new more Platonic Socrates in Books 2 through 10 of the Republic reflects his revisions to the particular style of rationality exhibited in the arguments of his teacher, Socrates, in Book 1. Plato's discussion of thumos, the middle part of the soul, shows that he moves to an imagistic and aesthetic notion of rationality to correct the problems with the combative and analytical style practiced by Socrates. At the same time, Plato retains the key elements of his teacher's philosophy, and this includes their shared notion that any outlook on life that orients itself away from the fact of human mortality is irrational on a foundational level.
In: The review of politics, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 136-140
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The review of politics, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 136-140
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 432-434
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 192-196
ISSN: 1930-5478
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 432-434
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 192-197
ISSN: 1045-7097
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 288-312
ISSN: 1552-7476
This essay utilizes Plato's insights into the role of shame in dialogical interactions to illuminate the aesthetic dimensions of deliberative democracy. Through a close analysis of the refutation of Polus in Plato's dialogue, the Gorgias, I show how the emotion of shame is central to the unsettling, dynamic, and transformative character of democratic engagement and political judgment identified by recent aesthetic critics of Habermas' model of communicative action and democratic deliberation. Plato's analysis of shame offers a friendly amendment to these aesthetic critiques by showing how the psychological forces at the heart of shame make the outcome of our political engagements with others uncertain and unsettling, even while they make possible the kind of self-reflexivity necessary to foster the deliberative virtue of sincerity or truthfulness.
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 288-312
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 273-279
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 273-279
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 468-494
ISSN: 1552-7476
In certain contemporary theories of the politics of shame, shame is considered a pernicious emotion that we need to avoid in, or a salutary emotion that serves as an infallible guide to, democratic deliberation. The author argues that both positions arise out of an inadequate notion of the structure of shame and an oversimplistic opposition between shame and shamelessness. Plato's dialogue, the Gorgias, actually helps to address these problems because it supplies a deeper understanding of the place of shame in democratic politics in ways that address our contemporary dilemmas. It does this first, by avoiding the simple opposition between shame and shamelessness and secondly, by articulating three different kinds of "politics of shame" that can characterize democratic deliberations. Finally, Plato's treatment of shame extends upon contemporary ethical and psychoanalytic notions of shame in ways that are directly relevant to the our contemporary political situation.