Tyranny and Etiology of Slave Economies in Plato's Republic
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online
Online lecture by Jackie Murray, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and Associate Professor of Classics, SUNY Buffalo.
Plato's Republic is considered a foundational text of 'Western' thought. We nevertheless confront the fact that it emerged from a society based on slavery, and that it evokes slavery not only in its dramatic encounters and themes, but in its very rhetoric and imagery. For theorists seeking to understand the development of human social formations, the text represents an important document of testimony as well as of intervention. What is the connection between the kinds of slavery Republic contains and the variants of this institution that develop in the modern and contemporary eras? What (if any) is the role played by race? And what, finally, is the relation between slavery and Plato's concepts of justice and political power?
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