Plato spent a lot of time, in The Republic, in discussions about Kallipolis, in specific, and politics, in general. However, we have to remember that he did so as a means to discuss the nature of justice and virtue, whether such concepts had objective definitions, and whether it benefitted human beings to adhere to those concepts, once he’d managed to discover those definitions. In the […]
A beautiful city?
Of all the contributions made by Plato to Western philosophical thought, probably the area that received most of his attention lay in the realm of political philosophy. As a descendant of Solon on his mother’s side, and the Athenian king, Codrus, on his father’s side, young Aristocles breathed politics as part of his everyday life. Moreover, the defeat of Athens at the hands of the […]
An Odd Sort of Mind
I think it’s pretty safe to say that Plato’s philosophy evolved through time, and his masterwork, The Republic, marks the transition between his early work (heavily inspired by the thinking of Socrates) to a middle period (where he started to explore more ideas). In The Republic, Plato continued his examination into the ideas of justice, beauty, virtue and compassion, and tried to get a handle […]