How Joseph De Maistre Read Plato’s Laws
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Maistre’s Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg is modeled on Plato’s Laws. Plato and Maistre both demand the political control of natural inquiry, and implement these controls through theodictic conversation. Maistre, following the lead of Plato’s legislator, publishes an exemplary conversation about providence between a young man tempted by an atheistic Enlightenment and two older, wiser, and more learned men of affairs. Maistre defends providentialism from materialist interpretations of natural science even as Plato defended it from ancient materialism.
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How Joseph De Maistre Read Plato’s Laws
In: Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political ThoughtSearch for other papers by Michael S. Kochin in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Maistre’s Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg is modeled on Plato’s Laws. Plato and Maistre both demand the political control of natural inquiry, and implement these controls through theodictic conversation. Maistre, following the lead of Plato’s legislator, publishes an exemplary conversation about providence between a young man tempted by an atheistic Enlightenment and two older, wiser, and more learned men of affairs. Maistre defends providentialism from materialist interpretations of natural science even as Plato defended it from ancient materialism.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 199 | 11 | 1 |
| Full Text Views | 54 | 4 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 29 | 1 | 0 |