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Plato, Thucydides, and the Uses of Political Discourse
Sat, August 31, 8:00 to 9:30am, Marriott, TaylorSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
This panel explores the uses of rhetoric, dialectics, and poetic images in politics and philosophy. Its papers consider what is distinctive, and what is distinctively revealing, about the classical approach to studying political things.
Sub Unit
Individual Presentations
Knowing What to Fear: Plato and Hobbes on Courage as a Kind of Knowledge - Michael C. Hawley, Bowdoin College
Thucydides on the Problem of the Imagination in the Athenian Democracy - Avshalom M Schwartz, Stanford University
Plato's Laws and the Question of the Gods - Robert Goldberg, St. John's College
The Use and Meaning of Eros in Thucydides - Timothy W. Burns, Baylor University