Rebecca Lemoine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Lemoine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemoine |
| SIGNATURE | LEMOINE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9177-4877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Recovered Script
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought
The role of the word 'myth' in contemporary political discourse appears to be fairly straightforward: to call something a 'myth' (e.g., 'the Lost Cause,' 'the steal,' 'the stab in the back,' 'the fallen cherry tree,' 'racial superiority,' 'computer chips in vaccines,' 'There was so much love at that [January 6th] rally') is usually to call it a
The City-State of the Soul
Foreigners as Liberators
Though recent scholarship challenges the traditional interpretation of Plato as anti-democratic, his antipathy to cultural diversity is still generally assumed. TheMenexenusappears to offer some of the most striking evidence of Platonic xenophobia, as it features Socrates delivering a mock funeral oration that glorifies Athens' exclusion of foreigners. Yet when readers play along with Socrates' exhortation to imagine the oration through the voice…
The Benefits of Bullies
Though Plato’s Euthydemus is usually interpreted as an unambiguous attempt to discredit the sophists’ teaching methods, I argue that the dialogue defends the role sophists play in philosophic education. Read in its dramatic context, the dialogue reveals that sophists offer a low-stakes environment for the testing and development of an important political virtue: moderation. The sophist’s classroom facilitates the cultivation of moderation by simu…
New Appointments
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Foreigners as Liberators
Though recent scholarship challenges the traditional interpretation of Plato as anti-democratic, his antipathy to cultural diversity is still generally assumed. TheMenexenusappears to offer some of the most striking evidence of Platonic xenophobia, as it features Socrates delivering a mock funeral oration that glorifies Athens' exclusion of foreigners. Yet when readers play along with Socrates' exhortation to imagine the oration through the voice…
The Benefits of Bullies
Though Plato’s Euthydemus is usually interpreted as an unambiguous attempt to discredit the sophists’ teaching methods, I argue that the dialogue defends the role sophists play in philosophic education. Read in its dramatic context, the dialogue reveals that sophists offer a low-stakes environment for the testing and development of an important political virtue: moderation. The sophist’s classroom facilitates the cultivation of moderation by simu…
New Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Benefits of Bullies
Though Plato’s Euthydemus is usually interpreted as an unambiguous attempt to discredit the sophists’ teaching methods, I argue that the dialogue defends the role sophists play in philosophic education. Read in its dramatic context, the dialogue reveals that sophists offer a low-stakes environment for the testing and development of an important political virtue: moderation. The sophist’s classroom facilitates the cultivation of moderation by simu…
Foreigners as Liberators
Though recent scholarship challenges the traditional interpretation of Plato as anti-democratic, his antipathy to cultural diversity is still generally assumed. TheMenexenusappears to offer some of the most striking evidence of Platonic xenophobia, as it features Socrates delivering a mock funeral oration that glorifies Athens' exclusion of foreigners. Yet when readers play along with Socrates' exhortation to imagine the oration through the voice…
The City-State of the Soul
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought
The role of the word 'myth' in contemporary political discourse appears to be fairly straightforward: to call something a 'myth' (e.g., 'the Lost Cause,' 'the steal,' 'the stab in the back,' 'the fallen cherry tree,' 'racial superiority,' 'computer chips in vaccines,' 'There was so much love at that [January 6th] rally') is usually to call it a
A Recovered Script
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works)