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Degenerate regimes in Plato's <i>Republic</i>

2011· book-chapter· en· W105265240 on OpenAlex
Zena Hitz

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsThe RepublicArgument (complex analysis)State (computer science)Political scienceDegenerate energy levelsPhilosophyLawLaw and economicsSociologyEpistemologyMathematicsPhysicsQuantum mechanicsChemistry

Abstract

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This chapter concerns the negative end of the political argument of the Republic. According to the political philosophy presented in the Republic and the Laws, one's political standard ultimately determines the practical choices one makes about political institutions and laws. The political turmoil of the late fifth and early fourth centuries clearly lies in the background of Plato's Republic. The chapter overviews the system of degenerate regimes in Book 8 and examines what exactly goes wrong with them and why. It explains how the process of degeneration ought to be understood as the progressive decay of the rule of reason. The chapter shows how the central contrast between the rule of reason and the rule of appetite is prefigured in earlier and less systematic parts of the Republic: the Ship of State image and the argument with Thrasymachus in Book 1.

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Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.910
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it