Plato’s Socrates and the Law Code of Athens
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<a href="https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/cz/mimoradna-cisla/68-jakub-jinek-ed-the-rule-of-the-people-and-the-rule-of-law-in-classical-greek-thought" target="_blank" >https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/cz/mimoradna-cisla/68-jakub-jinek-ed-the-rule-of-the-people-and-the-rule-of-law-in-classical-greek-thought</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Plato’s Socrates and the Law Code of Athens
Original language description
The paper claims that Socrates’ disawoval of wisdom in the Apology is not to be taken too seriously since it belongs to the rhetorical strategy of the sovereign philosopher who speaks in front of the crowd. In the political arena, the philosopher admits his obligation to become a philosopher-king, but only under a condition: only if his fellow-citizens would freely recognize his legitimacy to rule. As a potential ruler, he has to take into consideration the existing law code which is to be respected if his intended political reform should take place and succeed. The paper stresses that despite Plato’s condemnation of the democratic way of life current in Athens, he never criticizes Athenian laws; Solonian legal reform forms a starting point for his own political project. As a brief glance at the proposed law code of Magnesia in Plato’s Laws makes clear, the Platonic philosopher is full of respect to the Athenian legislative tradition.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Filosofický časopis
ISSN
0015-1831
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2021
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Special Issue, 2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
103-124
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115367803