Ruling Oneself
Platonic Hedonism and the Quality of Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6108468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R K Bentley, Russell Bentley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 85-107 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-257X • E-ISSN: 2051-2996 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/20512996-90000052 |
| OpenAlex | W2073338157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this paper, I examine how the idea of self-rule is dramatised and articulated in the Protagoras and the Gorgias with respect to the apparently different treatments of hedonism. Looking at the former dialogue, I describe how the hedonist premise develops from a dramatic image of disorder, specifically the absence of self-rule. I then consider whether the evidence from that dialogue has any bearing on the Gorgias’ discussion of hedonism. I conclude that the Socratic rejection of hedonism in that text is about the Calliclean abandonment of any concern for self-rule, an abandonment that actually masquerades as a commitment to self-rule. This analysis is used to present a more general account of what Socrates considers to be the capacities required for good citizenship
Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Citizenship · Epistemology · Hedonism · Political science · Premise · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |