Plato and practical politics

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Malcolm Schofield

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Malcolm Schofield: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Christopher Rowe: Affiliation:
University of Durham
Malcolm Schofield: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simon Harrison: Affiliation:
St John's College, Cambridge
Melissa Lane: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

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According to W.K.C.Guthrie in his A History of Greek Philosophy ‘the primary aim of education for statesmanship never left [Plato’s] thoughts. It was certainly his intention that many of his pupils should leave the Academy for politics, not as power-seekers themselves but to legislate or advise those in power, and we have the names of a number who did so.’ The distinguished historian P. A. Brunt takes a different view:

The evidence on the political activities of Plato’s pupils is too weak to sustain in itself the thesis that it was one of his chief aims to prepare them for statecraft. Some were falsely labelled his pupils, but there is no proof that the rest were impelled by his teaching to take part in public affairs, still less that they tried to implement his ideas, or succeeded. The testimony of Isocrates suggests that his disciples were primarily devoted to unworldly studies, and this is supported by Plato’s own skit in the Theaetetus on philosophers of his own kind.

As these contradictory assessments suggest, the sources on Plato and practical politics are not easy to handle, and interpretation tends to reflect the more or less self-conscious preconceptions of the interpreters about for example the Academy (how far was it yet an institution?), or the general credibility of ancient biography and epistolography, or the still more general issue of the impact on public life made by philosophy now or then. The present writer inclines to scepticism or minimalism in all these areas.

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