Plato and Pericles on Freedom and Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23233264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M E Moravcsik (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0229-7051 • E-ISSN: 2633-0490 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00455091.1983.10715860 |
| OpenAlex | W2151695281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
The main claim of this paper is that Plato's views on social and individual good as well as his criticism of democracy can be best understood as a conscious attempt to contrast with Periclean conceptions of freedom and democracy a new point of view. It will be argued that it is a mistake to see Plato's view as either democratic or authoritarian. An adequate understanding of Plato will focus on some difficult questions concerning the relationship between freedom and knowledge; questions that are rarely if ever faced clearly today. The Platonic conception and its clash with Pericles raises also some important and still unresolved questions about human motivation.
Authoritarianism · Criticism · Democracy · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Mistake · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |