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Praised and condemned by totalitarians and democrats, liberals, fascists and communists, progressives and conservatives, Plato's Republic is one of the most influential writings in the history of political ideas. In its central books the philosopher puts in the mouth of Socrates the principles of its challenging political construction. The defense of the philosophical government in Plato's Republic reveals the necessity of distinguishing true philosophers from false ones. This issue leads to the central question of the Good, the principle that constitutes the foundation of philosophical knowledge and of political activity. Once this principle has been introduced, the subsequent question turns on the education of the philosophers, which occupies Book VII. The present volume contains contributions to the main issues developed in Books V-VII of the Republic, on which the attention of scholarship in the past 100 years has focused, practical philosophy, metaphysics, dialectics, and the question of the Good. Sowohl von Totalitären, Faschisten, Kommunisten als auch von Liberalen, Demokraten, Fortschrittlichen und Konservativen gepriesen und getadelt ist Platons Politeia eine der einflußreichsten Schriften in der Geschichte der politischen Ideen. In ihren zentralen Büchern läßt Platon den Socrates die Prinzipien seiner gewagten politischen Konstruktion darstellen. Die Verteidigung der philosophischen Regierung in Platons Politeia zeigt die Notwendigkeit einer Differenzierung zwischen echten und unechten Philosophen. Dieses Thema führt zu der zentralen Frage des Prinzips, welches das Fundament der philosophischen Erkenntnis und der politischen Aktivität ausmacht: das Gute. Nachdem dieses Prinzip bestimmt ist, ist die nächste zu behandelnde Frage die Philosophenausbildung im 7. Buch. Der vorliegende Band enthält Beiträge zu den wichtigsten, in den Büchern V-VII behandelten Themen, auf die sich die Aufmerksamkeit der Platon-Forschung in den letzten 100 Jahren konzentrierte: praktische Philosophie, Metaphysik, Dialektik und die Frage nach dem Guten. Contents Introduction: The foundations of politics in the central books of the Republic (Francisco L. Lisi) - Part I Philosophical Government and Education: Politici e filosofi sulla nave della cittŕ (Silvia Gastaldi) - Elementi di una fenomenologia della massa nella Repubblica di Platone (Marco Russo) - Physis in Republic V 471c - VII 541b (Gottfried Heinemann) - Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Plato's Philosopher-Rulers (John Cleary) - L'innovazione platonica nell'allegoria della caverna (Silvia Campese) - Part II Being and Dialectics: Nei libri centrali della Repubblica (Francesco Fronterotta) - Glaucone e i misteri della dialettica (Mario Vegetti) - Part III The Good: L'analogia solare del VI libro della Repubblica (Francesca Calabi) - La potenza del 'Buono' (Franco Ferrari) - The Form of the Good (Francisco L. Lisi) - El sembrador divino (phutourgós) (Luc Brisson) - L'interpretazione del Bene nella Dissertazione XI del Commento alla Repubblica di Proclo (Michelle Abbatte) - Bibliography - Index locorum

Book details

• Full title: The Ascent to the Good
• Author: Francisco Lisi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9783896654267
• ISBN: 3896654268
• ID: 12763525
• Publisher: Academia Verlag GmbH
• Weight: 518 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 156 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2007

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