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Plato on Democracy and Political technē
Anders Sorensen
出版
BRILL
, 2016-09-12
主題
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Medieval
ISBN
9004326197
9789004326194
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B04PDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.