Making Equality 🏛️✨
Part of The Carlyle Lectures – The Shape of Democracy, this fourth lecture is delivered by Jill Frank, President White Professor of History & Political Science at Cornell University. In this session, Frank turns to Plato’s Laws to explore how equality is not simply a state of being but a practice—one that must be continually enacted, negotiated, and sustained within political communities.
The lecture examines how Plato’s account of equality challenges modern assumptions about sameness, fairness, and proportionality, offering a richer framework for thinking about democratic life and shared governance.
What to expect:
- 📚 A close examination of Plato’s Laws and its treatment of equality
- 🧠Insights into equality as an active political practice rather than a static condition
- 🏺 Reflections on how Platonic ideas can inform contemporary democratic theory