{"id":599,"date":"2014-01-26T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie?p=599"},"modified":"2014-01-26T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T11:39:15","slug":"platos-republic-and-aristotles-politics-had-such-a-dramatic-impact-on-me-that-i-tried-to-dump-law-and-read-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlato\u2019s Republic and Aristotle\u2019s Politics had such a dramatic impact on me that I tried to dump law and read politics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Human rights lawyer Conor Gearty cites Plato&#8217;s Republic and Aristotle&#8217;s Politics taught in a UCD Politics course taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/news\/oct05\/foc.htm\">Fr. Fergal O&#8217;Connor<\/a> as the most inspiring books he read in university:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Plato\u2019s Republic and Aristotle\u2019s Politics had such a dramatic impact on me that I tried to dump law and read politics\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsereviewofbooks\/2012\/07\/01\/the-books-that-inspired-conor-gearty\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/<wbr \/>lsereviewofbooks\/2012\/07\/01\/<wbr \/>the-books-that-inspired-conor-<wbr \/>gearty\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Aristotle&#8217;s Politics is one of the texts in SPIRe&#8217;s Introduction to Political Theory: Models of Democracy module taught this semester.(POL 10020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer Conor Gearty cites Plato&#8217;s Republic and Aristotle&#8217;s Politics taught in a UCD Politics course taught by Fr. Fergal O&#8217;Connor as the most inspiring books he read in university: &#8220;Plato\u2019s Republic and Aristotle\u2019s Politics had such a dramatic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spire-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}