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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Antikens historielöshet
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nya Argus. ; 11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Classical Greek Political Science in Action : Social Critique in Thucydides’ Mytilenean Debate and Melian Dialogue
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Greco-Roman Studies. - : The Korean Society of Greco-Roman Studies. - 1225-1828. ; 60:1, s. 17-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article brings together two central episodes in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. The interpreted episodes are the Mytilenean Debate in Book III and the Melian Dialogue in Book V of the History. In the present study, these episodes are approached as original inquiries into moral and political matters, assuming the shape of subversive social criticism: immanent critique. A particular focus lies on the socio-political ordering principles scrutinized in the Thucydidean episodes. In the Mytilenean Debate, it is the principle of expediency (τὸ ξύμφορον) that is given the upper hand, whereas in the Melian dialogue the dominating social ordering principle is that of safety and survival (σωτηρία). In each episode, a contending point of view aims at undermining the pre-eminence of the stronger principle. However, the critique only succeeds if the subversion is managed from within, and if it pays outward allegiance to the frames determined by the supreme communal will.
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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Diffusion of Political Ideas between Ancient India and Greece : Early Theories of the Origins of Monarchy
- 2023
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Ingår i: Polis. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0142-257X .- 2051-2996. ; 40:3, s. 479-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This investigation examines the question of whether the similar theories of the origins of monarchy encountered in certain early Greek and Indian literary sources should be taken as evidence of cross-cultural diffusion of political ideas. The paper argues against the alternative explanation, according to which the similarity in form in the Greek and Indian versions of the kingship theory is rooted in similar social processes, by exposing how the earliest extant Greek version of the theory seems to build on a prototype most closely mirrored in one early Indian source.
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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Gudomlig rättvisa i antikens Grekland
- 2015
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Ingår i: Religion: 21 försök. - : Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Linderborg, Otto H., 1985-
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Herodotus and the Origins of Political Philosophy : The Beginnings of Western Thought from the Viewpoint of its Impending End
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This investigation proposes a historical theory of the origins of political philosophy. It is assumed that political philosophy was made possible by a new form of political thinking commencing with the inauguration of the first direct democracies in Ancient Greece. The pristine turn from elite rule to rule of the people – or to δημοκρατία, a term coined after the event – brought with it the first ever political theory, wherein fundamentally different societal orders, or different principles of societal rule, could be argumentatively compared. The inauguration of this alternative-envisioning “secular” political theory is equaled with the beginnings of classical political theory and explained as the outcome of the conjoining of a new form of constitutionalized political thought (cratistic thinking) and a new emphasis brought to the inner consistency of normative reasoning (‘internal critique’). The original form of political philosophy, Classical Political Philosophy, originated when a political thought launched, wherein non-divinely sanctioned visions of transcendence of the prevailing rule, as well as of the full range of alternatives disclosed by Classical Political Theory, first began to be envisioned. Each of the hypotheses forming the theory – the hypotheses concerning the Ancient Greek beginnings of a “secular”-autonomous political rationale, political theory and political philosophy – is weighed against central evidence provided by the Histories of Herodotus. The passages thus given new interpretations are the Deioces episode in Book I, the Constitutional Debate in Book III and Xerxes’ War Councils in Book VII. Aside from the Herodotean evidence, a range of other relevant Greek literary sources from the archaic and classical ages – e.g. passages from Homer, Hesiod, several pre-Socratic thinkers, Plato and Aristotle – are duly taken into consideration. Included is also a reading of the Mytilenean Debate of Thucydides’ Book III, which shows how the political thought of the classical democracies worked in practice. Finally, the placing of the historical theory against a background of contemporary relevance provides an alternative to all text-oriented approaches not reckoning with the possibility of reaching historically plausible knowledge of real-world events and processes.
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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Immanent Critique in Thucydides’ Mytilenean Debate and Melian Dialogue
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Horizons. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1440-9917 .- 1568-5160. ; 23:1, s. 44-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates social critique in Thucydides’ History of thePeloponnesian War. Two famous Thucydidean episodes are in focus:the Mytilenean Debate in Book III and the Melian Dialogue in BookV of the History. These episodes are interpreted here as inquiriesassuming the shape of subversive and transformative socialcriticism: immanent critique. Immanent critique aims at shiftinghorizons of meaning in social contexts, and the philosopherspracticing this kind of social criticism understand themselves asphysicians of a failing society. In Thucydides’ work, a particularobject of criticism is formed by varying dominant social and moralordering principles. In the Mytilenean Debate, it is the principle ofexpediency (τò ξυ΄μφορον) that rules, whereas in the MelianDialogue the governing normative ordering principle is that ofsafety and survival (σωτηρíα). In each episode, a contendingperspective is introduced for the purpose of undermining thedominating principle.
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- Linderborg, Otto, 1985-
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Never-ending Crisis : The History of the Socratic Problem
- 2023
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Ingår i: Antigone.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Socratic problem, simply put, is the conundrum of how to discern between the historical Socrates and his representation in fiction. This article will provide a concise summary of the history of this vexed problem. In what follows, eight breaking points are identified and explored in turn
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