Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations

A sketch

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4445381
AutoresKing-Ho Leung (0000-0001-5551-7865, University of St Andrews, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas176-191
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00471178211021493
OpenAlexW3167782767
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

This article offers a reading of Plato in light of the recent debates concerning the unique 'ontology' of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline. In particular, this article suggests that Plato's metaphysical account of the integral connection between human individual, the domestic state and world order can offer IR an alternative outlook to the 'political scientific' schema of 'levels of analysis'. This article argues that Plato's metaphysical conception of world order can not only provide IR theory with a way to re-imagine the relation between the human, the state and world order, but also Plato's outlook can highlight or even call into question the post-metaphysical presuppositions of contemporary IR theory in its 'borrowed ontology' from modern social science, which can in turn facilitate IR's re-interpretation of its own 'ontology' as well as its distinct contributions to the understanding of the various aspects of the social world and human life

Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Metaphysics · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Schema (genetic algorithms) · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification