The tripartition of the city in Plato's "Laws"



Título del documento: The tripartition of the city in Plato's "Laws"
Revue: Diálogos (Río Piedras)
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000466327
ISSN: 0012-2122
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, París. Francia
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 47
Número: 98
Paginación: 111-142
País: Puerto Rico
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, crítico
Resumen en inglés In this paper, I would like to show how in the Laws, one finds a similar parallelism between the parts of the soul and those of the city as in the Republic. To appetite (epithumía), whose objects are pain and pleasure that must be mastered by the intellect with the help of spirit, correspond the ordinary citizens, or the people (dêmos); to spirit (thumós), characterized by the courage that must first resist pain and pleasure, corresponds the magistracy of the Country Wardens (agronómoi); while to intellect (noûs) or good judgment (phrónesis) corresponds the supreme magistracy of the Watch Committee (nukterinòs súllogos). Moreover as in the Republic, this tripartition implies a bipartition, for the people as such is distinguished from two magistracies, the Country Wardens and the Watch Committee, the latter indicating a governing body. This parallelism is less evident in the Laws than in the Republic, for in the Laws all citizens must join an army, the structures of which are described in Book VI (755b-756b); what is more, courage is defined as the domination on pleasures and pains (Laws I, 644b-d)
Disciplinas: Filosofía
Palabras clave: Doctrinas y corrientes filosóficas,
Filosofía política,
Metafísica,
Alma,
Ciudades,
Platón,
La República
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