Plato on Democracy and Political technē
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23809161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Sørensen (0000-0002-8310-4221, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Plato on Democracy and Political technē (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004326194 |
| OpenAlex | W2519390342 |
| ISBN | 9789004326194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In Plato on Democracy and Political technē Sørensen argues that the question of democracy's 'epistemic potential' was one that Plato took more seriously than is usually assumed. While he famously rejected democracy on the basis of its inherent inability to accommodate political expertise (technē), he did not think that this failure on democracy's part was necessarily inevitable but a concept that required further examination. Sørensen shows that in a number of his most important dialogues (Republic, Gorgias, Statesman, Protagoras, Theaetetus), Plato was ready to take up the question of democracy's epistemic potential and to enter into strikingly technical and sophisticated discussions of what both rule by technē and rule by the people would have to look like in order for the two things to be compatible.
Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Techne · The Republic · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |