Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy
By Waller R. Newell (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Ruling Passion is the only book-length study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major Platonic dialogues, the Georgias, the Symposium, and the Republic. It is also the first extended interpretation of eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and … Continued