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Ballingall, Robert A.

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The Reverent City: Plato's "Laws" and the Politics of Ethical Authority.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Reverent City: Plato's "Laws" and the Politics of Ethical Authority./
Author:	Ballingall, Robert A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-05A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10239837
ISBN:	9780355490466

The Reverent City: Plato's "Laws" and the Politics of Ethical Authority.
Ballingall, Robert A.

The Reverent City: Plato's "Laws" and the Politics of Ethical Authority. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 219 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

As a virtue, reverence seems to have disappeared. People who speak highly of it are suspected of an obtuse fanaticism or of adherence to some eccentric New Age cult. If reverence lives on in mainstream culture, it does so either as a term of abuse or---more typically---through its antonym, whose merits are loudly broadcast. But what if reverence is a quality without which civilized life becomes impossible? Do societies like ours neglect reverence at their peril? Plato, at any rate, suggests they do. This study elucidates Plato's reasons for thinking so. These appear in the seldom studied Laws, the most important treatment of reverence in the tradition of Western political philosophy. Building on exciting developments in classical studies and political theory, The Reverent City sheds new light on this long-neglected dialogue, and on its significance for our irreverent times. On my interpretation, Plato looks to reverence as the root of ethical learning in all-too-human citizens. Political life depends on such learning, but the Laws shows how powerful currents in human nature incline most of us away from it. To acquire and practice the virtues that are its fruit thus demands refusing the inclinations that are its bane, and it is reverence---the capacity to show due respect for what exceeds and circumscribes the human---that supplies the needed impetus on Plato's account. I bring out the enduring relevance of this argument by highlighting the prescience of its warnings. He shows how the Laws anticipates with remarkable foresight the cynicism, apathy, and nativism to which democratic publics are increasingly prone in modern societies. By recovering a novel diagnosis for these trends in the neglect of a forgotten virtue, The Reverent City affords a richer understanding of our worrying politics, and blazes a promising path for future research.

ISBN: 9780355490466Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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