Which Plato’s Political Philosophy? [Spanish]
Keywords:
dialectic, Socrates, city, simile, idea, paradoxAbstract
The following paper contends that Plato’s philosophy is essentially a political activity. This imply, however, to distinguish how this political philosophy carries out, its meaning and scope. Many scholars have attributed to Plato the political project, which
Socrates develops in the dialogue Republic. Nevertheless, the simile of the cave reveals the impossibility of such a project or, at least, the serious problems that lie behind it. So, I suggest, that is not in the dialogue Republic where it finds Plato’s authentic political philosophy, but in the so-called aporetic dialogues. In these dialogues it does not discuss about a possible city, but it exercises in a lively way a politics builted by
Socrates’ dialectic therapy, whose task is unveiling the virtue through the unmasking the faces of the city.
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