Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations

A sketch

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4445381
AutoresKing-Ho Leung (0000-0001-5551-7865, University of St Andrews, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume36
Fascículo2
Páginas176-191
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00471178211021493
OpenAlexW3167782767
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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