POLISPub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340372
Avshalom M. Schwartz
{"title":"Between Specters of War and Vision of Peace: Dialogic Political Theory and the Challenges of Politics, written by Gerald M. Mara","authors":"Avshalom M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88733017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340371
A. Priou
{"title":"Beyond Law and Poetry: On Two Recent Festschriften","authors":"A. Priou","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74922312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340365
W. Altman
{"title":"Xenophon, the Old Oligarch, and Alcibiades","authors":"W. Altman","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340365","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Modifying the conjecture of Wolfgang Helbig (1861) by means of the distinction between Xenophon and his various narrators introduced by Benjamin McCloskey (2017), this paper uses the insights of Hartvig Frisch (1942) to show how drawing a distinction between the first-person speaker in pseudo-Xenophon’s Constitution of the Athenians and its author indicates that the former is Alcibiades and the latter is Xenophon himself.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77401319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340364
Samuel Flores
{"title":"Philosopher-Strangers: Xenia and Panhellenism in Plato’s Laws","authors":"Samuel Flores","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340364","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Since antiquity, there has been little consensus on how to interpret the identity of the anonymous Athenian Stranger of Plato’s Laws. This paper uses the Stranger’s identification as xenos as a starting point in examining the role of xenia in Plato’s Laws. In this dialogue, Plato uses xenia throughout the dialogue to portray philosophic relationships between characters from different poleis and to establish the importance of intercultural and Panhellenic exchange for philosophic friendship and the establishment of an ideal polis. The Laws shows that ideal polis must maintain peaceful and philosophical relations with other cities, and xenia makes this possible.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86663886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340367
S. Varga
{"title":"Geordnete Gemeinschaft. Politische Autarkie bei Aristoteles","authors":"S. Varga","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340367","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In Aristotelian understanding, political autarky does not imply individual isolation, but the order of all human relationships within the (political) community. The final aim is not ‘not-needing-anybody-else-anymore’, the independent identity, but the collective-cooperative shaping and ordering of life in the immediate forms of community. This includes in a special way (i) basic social-anthropological elements, (ii) economic activities, (iii) civic organization, (iv) social-ethical reflection and (v) friendship. These core elements of Aristotle’s specific political autarky make it clear that man is not only a zōon politikon but also a zōon koinonikon and that he can only realize this ‘political autarky’ in community.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79853022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340358
D. Gardner
{"title":"Cynicism as Immanent Critique: Diogenes and the Philosophy of Transvaluation","authors":"D. Gardner","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340358","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000I argue that Diogenes and early Cynicism can be understood in an explicitly social and political context, where Cynic praxis, performative public action, can be seen to make visible oppositions inherent to the polity. In doing so, Diogenes’ praxis should be understood as a form of immanent critique, one that demonstrates, for example, that nature and custom (phusis and nomos) are interrelated oppositions in the polis. Cynicism here is understood as a form of immanent critique because Diogenes challenges the social norms of the polis without endorsing external universal standards or predetermined models, but from illuminating dynamics from within the polis and polity.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82418397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340359
David H. Little
{"title":"The Beautiful in Aristotle’s Ethics","authors":"David H. Little","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340359","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article argues for an aesthetic reading of to kalon, primarily as it appears in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle uses to kalon to indicate that, to the morally serious, virtue is attractive and productive of a kind of pleasure. Read aesthetically, to kalon mitigates the tension between one’s own good and the common good. Aristotle shows how his students’ understanding of to kalon can be refined and thus preserved as an important and salutary feature of moral and political life.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88544841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340354
Douglas Cairns, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis
{"title":"Recognition and Redistribution in Aristotle’s Account of Stasis","authors":"Douglas Cairns, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In <em>Politics</em> 5.1–3, Aristotle sees different conceptions of proportional equality and justice as the fundamental causes of <em>stasis</em> and <em>metabolē</em> (constitutional change). His account shows what happens to notions of ‘particular’ justice when they become causes of individual and collective action in pursuit of moral and political revolution. The whole discussion of the causes of <em>stasis</em> should be read through the filter of individual/group motivation – as a reflection of what goes on in the heads of those who engage in <em>stasis</em>. Movements towards political change are motivated by ingrained conceptions of proportional equality and fair distribution of honour and wealth. Aristotle’s approach, therefore, may be compared to Axel Honneth’s, that social justice should be seen in terms of the distribution of dignity and respect as well as of material resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340355
Matthew Simonton
{"title":"Demagogues and Demagoguery in Hellenistic Greece","authors":"Matthew Simonton","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340355","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper introduces scholars of Greek political thought to the continued existence of the phenomenon of demagoguery, or ‘(mis-)leadership of the people’, in the Hellenistic period. After summarizing Classical elite discourse about demagoguery, I explore three areas in which political leaders continued to run afoul of elite norms in Hellenistic democratic poleis: 1) political persecution of the wealthier members of a political community; 2) ‘pandering to’ the people in a way considered infra dignitatem; and 3) stoking bellicosity among the common people. I show that considerable continuities link the Classical and Hellenistic periods and that demagoguery should be approached as a potential window onto ‘popular culture’ in Greek antiquity.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90527451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
POLISPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340356
Peter J. Steinberger
{"title":"Eumenides and the Invention of Politics","authors":"Peter J. Steinberger","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340356","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Recent scholarship has shown that the Eumenides of Aeschylus, far from presenting a complete and coherent picture of the well-ordered polis, in fact offers something quite different, namely, a complex set of questions, concerns and conundrums regarding the very nature of political society. But I suggest that the literature has not yet provided a fully satisfying account of the ways in which those questions are underwritten by the specifically literary practice of Aeschylus as it develops the play’s larger theoretical – especially moral – implications. I argue that the Eumenides can fruitfully be read as a sustained exercise in the subversion of expectations that unsettles its audience and thereby opens up a discursive and aesthetic space for the development of a distinctive political problematic; and further, that this problematic involves a challenging series of meditations on what today would be called political ethics, broadly conceived.","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80402865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}