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Japanese-English Translation: Kitaōji Rosanjin—Character (1953), Christopher Southward
Japanese-English Translation: Kitaōji Rosanjin—Character (1953), Christopher Southward
Comparative Literature Faculty Scholarship
日英翻訳書：「個性」、北大路魯山人著、サウスワード・クリストファー（南方）訳
Persuasion And Force In Plato's Republic, Christopher Moore
Persuasion And Force In Plato's Republic, Christopher Moore
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Despite the frequent pairing of and contrast between persuasion and force, Plato’s Republic undermines any coherent split between these two modes of handling others. This paper provides two major pieces of evidence to support this claim: (i) Book I dramatizes the weakness of the distinction; and (ii) the arguments that the best rulers will rule only under coercion (in Books I, V, VII, and IX) makes the distinction into an obvious conundrum. Further evidence omitted here is Plato’s tendency to subvert this same rhetorically popular binary elsewhere, especially Statesman, Sophist and Laws. Given that Plato doesn’t explicitly question the persuasion-force …