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  1. Changing the Authoritative Voice: Lycurgus' "Against Leocrates".Danielle S. Allen - 2000 - Classical Antiquity 19 (1):5-33.
    Lycurgus' "Against Leocrates" has long been seen as an anomaly in the oratorical corpus by scholars of ancient rhetoric. Its extensive use of quotations from the poets and of personification are two features regularly picked out as especially odd and inexplicable by critics. This paper argues that these and other features of the speech are central to Lycurgus' attempt to persuade his jury to accept his radically un-Athenian political views. In fact, Lycurgus has rejected Athenian approaches to punishment, prosecution, and (...)
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  • Plato's Theory of Punishment and Penal Code in the Laws.Matthew Adams - 2019 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (1):1-14.
    ABSTRACTI argue that the degree to which a criminal should be punished is determined by three elements: a baseline amount that proportionally compensates the victim and an additional penalty that, first, reforms the criminal and, second, deters others from becoming unjust. My interpretation provides a solution to the interpretive puzzle that has most vexed commentators: the alleged tension between Plato's philosophical theory of punishment and the content of his penal code. I defend a two-step solution to the puzzle. First, on (...)
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  • Le dieu de la loi.Fulcran Teisserenc - 2018 - Philosophie Antique 18:37-69.
    À la fin du ve siècle avant Jésus-Christ, apparaît dans la littérature grecque un certain nombre de discours impies. Platon en fait l’inventaire dans les Lois. Parmi les critiques adressées à la religion traditionnelle, l’une figure en bonne place chez Euripide : puisque les hommes injustes n’ont, dans les faits, guère à pâtir de leur conduite, il est légitime de mettre en doute l’existence des dieux. Or une autre thèse, voisine dans son vocabulaire mais conceptuellement distincte, se fait jour à (...)
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  • From the First Soul to the Second Autonomy: the Political Cosmology of the Laws.Fulcran Teisserenc - 2019 - Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 45:39-70.
    Le livre X des Lois développe une argumentation complexe destinée à réfuter les athées. J’analyse deux thèses célèbres, l’automotricité de l’âme et la circularité du mouvement de l’intellect, ainsi que leur contribution au raisonnement de l’Étranger. Le résultat de l’étude est négatif : elles ne sont ni suffisantes ni même nécessaires pour démontrer l’existence des dieux. Leur véritable utilité est à chercher ailleurs : dans une certaine image du monde, à la fois vraisemblable et susceptible d’inspirer la conduite de ses (...)
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  • Du ch'timent à la honte.Andreas Farina-Schroll - 2024 - Philosophie Antique 24 (24):175-198.
    The myth of judgment in the final pages of Plato’s Gorgias has left more than one of its readers puzzled, a standpoint that is especially true in regards of the way that the punishment reserved to the unjust souls in Hades has been interpreted. In this paper, we shall see that the specific function of the punishment in the final myth of Plato’s Gorgias is to offer a metaphor of the effects of refutation upon the soul. For such a claim, (...)
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