The Carlyle Lectures : The Purposes of Office and Rule

20 February 17:00
Examination Schools

Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule 

Speaker: Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)

The Carlyle Lectures, 2018

Lecture Six: The Purposes of Office and Rule   

Turning back to Republic I in dialogue with the Statesman, this lecture explores rule as a phenomenon that includes but is broader than political office alone (which is one role through which rule can be exercised).  It shows Plato to have wrestled with both the promise and the danger of a perfect identification between a person and the role of ruler.   

The Carlyle Lectures, 2018

 

Lecture One: Office and Anarchy

Lecture Two: Office and Accountability

Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled

Lecture Four: Rule, Law, and Liberty

Lecture Five: Office and Rule in Constitutional Change

Lecture Six: The Purposes of Office and Rule