Ancient history and contemporary political theory: the case of liberty

Arena, Valentina

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“…Four years later, in 2020, with a voter turnout of 67%-higher than that of any other presidential election since 1901-Trump lost by over seven million votes 11 . Trump's job-approval ratings, which barely reached 50% in his four years in office and ended at an all-time low, also tell the story of a deeply unpopular president 12 . Still, by other measures, Trump was persistently popular.…”

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“…When putting aside Trump's character to examine his actions and policies, the thesis that Trump represents a tyrant weakens, see Walter R. Newell, "Introduction: Tyranny Two Years on", in Tyrants: Power, Injustice, and Terror (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 1-30 [6]. For examples of contemporary authors wrestling with these themes, see Josiah Ober and Charles W. Hedrick, Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) [11]; and Valentina Arena, Liberty: Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2021) [12]. 9 In this essay, I use "freedom" and "liberty" interchangeably.…”

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Navigating Democracy’s Fragile Boundary: Lessons from Plato on Political Leadership

Vergaray

2024

Philosophies

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This article presents a case that former President of the United States Donald Trump was a tyrant-like leader in the mold of the tyrant in Plato’s Republic. While he does not perfectly embody the tyrant as presented in the Republic, he captures its core feature. Like the tyrant, Trump is driven by unregulated desires that reflect what Plato describes as an extreme freedom that underlies and threatens democratic regimes. Extreme freedom is manifested in Trump’s disregard for social and legal norms, which mirrors the lawlessness of the tyrant. The people, in turn, interpret that posture as a mark of authenticity. Understanding Trump’s appeal in the United States helps alert friends of democracy to the possible rise of tyrant-like figures. In closing, and as a way of remedying the harm done by the tyrannical soul, the article recommends that society help temper tyrant-like passions in the people through a rededication to civic equality.

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Navigating Democracy’s Fragile Boundary: Lessons from Plato on Political Leadership

Vergaray

2024

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The Concept of Political Stability and Political Conflicts

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Palamarchuk

2023

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The phenomena of political stability and political conflicts have been studied. Aspects and factors influencing political stability have been analysed, as well as theoretical approaches to analysing political conflicts and political stability. The peculiarities of scientific approaches to determining political stability have been briefly considered. Namely: institutional, socio-economic, psychological, geopolitical, and systemic. The actual definition of political stability has been provided as the stability of the political system, which means the absence of sudden changes and severe conflicts for at least a certain (preferably long) time. The systematized key aspects of this concept have been presented in table form using different approaches. Political stability will consider such aspects as civic participation, social planning and economic stability. In a narrow sense, political stability would mean the absence of radical changes during a certain period. The following theoretical approaches to the analysis of political conflicts have been analysed: realist, liberal, Marxist and postmodernist. Realists believe that political conflicts arise due to the power struggle, liberals see the causes of disputes in insufficient cooperation between the main subjects of politics, Marxists consider politics as a reflection of class and economic conflict relations, and postmodernists argue that politics is (de)constructed through diversity discursive practices. The following methods of conflict resolution in the scientific community have been considered: maintaining the balance of power (realists); appeal to the law and intensification of negotiations to end conflicts (liberals); aggravating the conflict for the society, having passed through revolutionary events, to move into a new quality (Marxists); maintenance of dialogue and tolerance in society (postmodernists).

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Ancient history and contemporary political theory: the case of liberty

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Navigating Democracy’s Fragile Boundary: Lessons from Plato on Political Leadership

Navigating Democracy’s Fragile Boundary: Lessons from Plato on Political Leadership

The Concept of Political Stability and Political Conflicts

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