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Philosophy As Liturgical Action: An Essay On Plato's Politics, Gene Fendt
Philosophy As Liturgical Action: An Essay On Plato's Politics, Gene Fendt
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Plato teaches that the arche and telos of politics is liturgical action. No 'purely secular' foundation of a polis is possible. Politics necessarily opens beyond itself and is therefore subject to theological critique and theotic fulfillment (or not). The Republic teaches about the primacy of the liturgical; in the Laws Plato presents the proper liturgical act for human beings.