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Thursday Night Philosophy Workshop: “A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic”

Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) in conversation with Jessica Moss (NYU), Nickolas Pappas (CUNY) and Giovanni Giorgini (University of Bologna)

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, A Wolf in the City is the first monograph entirely devoted to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant’s soul in Plato’s Republic. The book argues that Plato’s critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. It shows that Plato’s critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato’s discussion of the soul of the tyrant, the book  also offers new insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.

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Presented by The New School for Social Research.

Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103











When: Thu., Nov. 1, 2018 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: Free
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Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) in conversation with Jessica Moss (NYU), Nickolas Pappas (CUNY) and Giovanni Giorgini (University of Bologna)

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, A Wolf in the City is the first monograph entirely devoted to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant’s soul in Plato’s Republic. The book argues that Plato’s critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. It shows that Plato’s critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato’s discussion of the soul of the tyrant, the book  also offers new insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-wolf-in-the-city-9780190678852?cc=us&lang=en&#.

Presented by The New School for Social Research.

Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103

Buy tickets/get more info now