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dc.contributor.authorOjakangas, Mika
dc.contributor.editorBackman, Jussi
dc.contributor.editorCimino, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-24T09:28:17Z
dc.date.available2023-02-24T09:28:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationOjakangas, M. (2022). Plato and the Biopolitical Purge of the City-State. In J. Backman, & A. Cimino (Eds.), <i>Biopolitics and Ancient Thought</i> (pp. 38-58). Oxford University Press. Classics in Theory. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847102.003.0003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847102.003.0003</a>
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dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/85634
dc.description.abstractThis chapter argues that Plato’s mature political philosophy is essentially biopolitical, representing, in particular, what Foucault identifies as biopolitical state racism. A state racist mentality looks at the population as a gardener looks at her garden: without weeding, the garden does not flourish. In Plato’s view, this mentality is lacking in the Greek democratic city-state in which the weeds (the inferior many) repress the flowers (the superior few), but it is not altogether absent from Greek society, as Plato discovers it in a variety of practices from selective animal breeding to the medical art of surgery. From these practices, Plato argues, we learn that only the elimination or the expulsion of the incurable members of the community suffering from physical and/or mental defects or diseases enables the community to become happy and flourishing. For Plato, such a “state purge” (katharmos poleōs) is not a mere political option but the necessity of natural justice.en
dc.format.extent240
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofBiopolitics and Ancient Thought
dc.relation.ispartofseriesClassics in Theory
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherPlaton
dc.subject.otherAgamben, Giorgio
dc.subject.othernatural justice
dc.subject.otherpolitical therapy
dc.subject.otherstate racism
dc.subject.otherstate purge
dc.subject.otherdemocracy
dc.subject.othertyranny
dc.subject.otherPlato
dc.subject.otherGiorgio Agamben
dc.titlePlato and the Biopolitical Purge of the City-State
dc.typebookPart
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202302241896
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineValtio-oppifi
dc.contributor.oppiainePolitical Scienceen
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dc.relation.isbn978-0-19-284710-2
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange38-58
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Oxford University Press, 2022
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dc.subject.ysoantiikin filosofia
dc.subject.ysokaupunkivaltiot
dc.subject.ysoitsevaltius
dc.subject.ysooikeudenmukaisuus
dc.subject.ysorasismi
dc.subject.ysobiopolitiikka
dc.subject.ysopoliittinen filosofia
dc.subject.ysodemokratia
dc.subject.ysoluonnonlait
dc.subject.ysoeugeniikka
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