Passionate about Politics: Sabrina Martin
We’ve asked some of our Undergraduate Politics academics, tutors and lecturers to tell us what sparked their interest in the subject, when they were students.
In the second instalment, we talked to Sabrina Martin, Lecturer in Politics at Keble and Pembroke colleges, who said it was the Platonic ideal of justice that fascinated her about politics:
“I read Plato's Republic in my first term of my first year of university. The course compared Mill's liberal version of the good life with Plato's, but what stuck with me was the Platonic ideal of justice,” she said.
“For Plato, a soul is just when its parts work in harmony, and a society is just in the same way.
“This way of thinking about justice has very much gone out of vogue in contemporary political theory (some of it for good reason), but I still love the idea of pieces of a society having to fit together for justice to be realised.”
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