Platonic Autonomy

OLOF PETTERSSON is Associate Professor (docent) in Philosophy at Uppsala University. He has published extensively on Plato and ancient philosophy and also edited several books in this field, including Plato's Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (2017) and Defending a Philosophical Life: Readings of Plato's Apology (2018). PAULIINA REMES is Professor in Philosophy at Uppsala University. She is also the author of Plotinus' on Self (Cambridge, 2007) and Neoplatonism (2008), and the co-editor, together with Slaveva-Griffin, of the award-winning Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (2014).

• Introduction: Pauliina Remes and Olof Pettersson; Part I. Self-Determination: From Legislation to Giving Rational Accounts: 1. Accounts and accountability: the importance of being Autologizomenos Amber Carpenter; Part II. Motivational Challenges to Self-Rule: 2. Plato's problems with aversion Nicholas D. Smith; 3. A complex model of action: what is ruling? Oda Tvedt; Part III. Internal and External Authorities: 4. Dialectic and rational agency: establishing self-rule in the republic and hippias major Franco V. Trivigno; 5. Socrates and conflicting epistemic requirements: autonomy and authority Toomas Lott; 6. Awakening autonomy: Olympiodorus' commentary on Plato's Gorgias James M. Ambury; Part IV. The Limits of Autonomy and Self-Rule: 7. Vulnerability, dialogue, and the limits of autonomy Marina Berzins McCoy; 8. Plato, dialogue and epistemic autonomy Olof Pettersson; Part V. Reconciling between Freedom, External Authority, and Nature: 9. Self-government and law in the crito and the statesman Charlotta Weigelt; 10. Freedom, willing servitude, and the limits to autonomy in Plato's Laws Susan Sauvé Meyer; 11. The natural preconditions of political freedom Andy German.