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4 de jun. de 2024 · Plato’s ambivalent assessment, his reckoning of the negatives and the positives of democracy, can be situated within a larger idea that surfaces throughout his dialogues: what is often termed “the unity of opposites.”. On this view, the being or identity of something depends on its opposite.
Hace 2 días · Influenced by Socrates, Plato focused his philosophy on the search for truth and knowledge through critical dialogue. Through works such as Republic and Phaedoexplored concepts of justice, politics, and the immortality of the soul. He also advocated a comprehensive education that cultivated virtue and wisdom.
Hace 2 días · Nonetheless, in his Republic, Plato referred to the Lacedaemonian polity as a timocracy. According to Aristotle, a timocracy is merely another name for the polity, or a republic in Roman terms. “The polities are the kingship and the aristocracy…and based on the valuation of property, which seems that it was correct to call it timocratic, but many are used to calling it a ‘polity,” said ...
20 de jun. de 2024 · Focusing on three of Plato's dialogues―The Laws, The Republic, and The Statesman―Mark Blitz lays out the philosopher's principal interests in government and the strength and limit of the law, the connection between law and piety, the importance of founding, and the status and limits of political knowledge.
13 de jun. de 2024 · Plato credited the poet with divine inspiration, but this, too, was cause for worry; a man possessed by such madness would subvert the interests of a rational polity. Poets were therefore to be banished from the hypothetical republic.
Hace 5 días · Within "The Republic," Plato explores justice, the just city-state, and the just man, introducing concepts that have influenced political theory for centuries. Among Plato's thirty-six extant works, only one is not a dialogue, emphasizing the unique dialogic method he employed to explore philosophical concepts.
7 de jun. de 2024 · Platonism - Renaissance, Neoplatonism, Idealism: From the 15th century onward the dialogues of Plato and a large number of Middle Platonist and Neoplatonist works, above all the Enneads of Plotinus, became available in the original Greek in western Europe.
