New Strategies for Reading Plato’s Ion
| Autor: | Ferroni, L., Mace, A. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| DOI: | 10.25985/pi.10.1.02 |
| Popis: | How should we read Platos Ion today In this paper, the authors present the strategy of contextualisation that they have developed in their recent edition, translation and running commentary of the dialogue. They approached the text by means of a twofold contextualisation: an exhaustive analysis of all the available textual evidence, on the one hand an extended cultural contextualisation of the encounter between Socrates and Ion, a probably fictional rhapsode specialised in Homer, on the other. Read against the background of ancient institutions and history it draws upon, this short dialogue reveals more philosophical freedom and originality than it is usually granted. The Ion lays the principles of a Platonic philosophy of practices and turns the dialogue form into a flexible genre of writing apt to test all practices with respect to their intrinsic claims to knowledge. The dialogues literary form is akin to the point of view of the idits, the ignorant lover of knowledge, Socrates. №10(01) (2019) |
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