Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political

by Melissa Lane

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thought

Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691192154
• ISBN13: 9780691192154
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"