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LeMoine, Rebecca.

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Philosophy and the Foreigner in Plato's Dialogues.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Philosophy and the Foreigner in Plato's Dialogues./
Author:	LeMoine, Rebecca.
Description:	310 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3629431
ISBN:	9781321063202

Philosophy and the Foreigner in Plato's Dialogues.
LeMoine, Rebecca.

Philosophy and the Foreigner in Plato's Dialogues. - 310 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The place of foreigners in Plato's thought remains understudied despite the prevalence of foreign characters, myths, and practices throughout his dialogues. Attending to this gap in the scholarly literature, this dissertation challenges conventional depictions of Plato as hostile to diversity by showing that Plato makes a compelling case for why we should engage with foreigners: the epistemological benefits of cross-cultural engagement. Through exegetical readings of the Republic, Laws, Phaedrus, and Menexenus, I argue that Plato finds cross-cultural dialogue epistemologically beneficial owing to its ability to provoke us to philosophize together, an activity at once conducive to the quest for wisdom and generative of friendship. Put simply, conversations with foreigners perform the same role as the Socratic gadfly of stinging us into consciousness. This finding has major implications for the field of political theory and, specifically, for the role of the new subfield commonly referred to as comparative political theory. By demonstrating the centrality of cross-cultural dialogue to Plato's conception of political theory, this dissertation suggests that comparative political theory is not a deviation from the tradition of Western political theory, but a restoration of it. As such, reinvigorating the practice of political theory as a comparative enterprise may be more crucial than most political theorists think.

ISBN: 9781321063202Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

Philosophy and the Foreigner in Plato's Dialogues.
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