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Sea Captains And Philosopher Kings: Melville's Billy Budd And Plato's Republic, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Sea Captains And Philosopher Kings: Melville's Billy Budd And Plato's Republic, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
This article shows how Melville’s Billy Budd, rightly one of law and literature’s most widely studied canonical texts, answers Plato’s challenge in Book X of the Republic: Show how “poets” create better citizens, especially better rulers, or banish them from the commonwealth of reasoned law. Captain Vere is a flawed but instructive version of the Republic’s philosopher-king, even as his story is precisely the sort of “poetry” that Plato should willing allow, by his own republican principles, into the ideal polity. Not surprisingly, the novella shows how law’s agents must be wise, even as their law must be philosophical, if …
Sea Captains And Philosopher Kings: Melville's Billy Budd And Plato's Republic, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Sea Captains And Philosopher Kings: Melville's Billy Budd And Plato's Republic, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
This article shows how Melville’s Billy Budd, rightly one of law and literature’s most widely studied canonical texts, answers Plato’s challenge in Book X of the Republic: Show how “poets” create better citizens, especially better rulers, or banish them from the commonwealth of reasoned law. Captain Vere is a flawed but instructive version of the Republic’s philosopher-king, even as his story is precisely the sort of “poetry” that Plato should willing allow, by his own republican principles, into the ideal polity. Not surprisingly, the novella shows how law’s agents must be wise, even as their law must be philosophical, if …
Assessing The Foundations Of Neo-Classical Professionalism In Law And Business, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Assessing The Foundations Of Neo-Classical Professionalism In Law And Business, Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
Robert E. Atkinson Jr.
This paper offers a neo-classical approach to corporate reform: Remodeling the private practice of corporate law and the management of for-profit business to make both occupations better serve, together, their proper public functions. Without dismissing the recent focus of reform on external regulation of corporations or internal restructuring of corporate governance, this paper seeks the foundation for a different approach, encouraging corporate managers and lawyers as professionals to serve their occupation’s correlate values: prosperity and justice. This focus on the primary agents of modern capitalism, corporate managers and lawyers, responds both to early management reformers like Brandeis in the U.S. …