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259Armonia, concordia e politica in Eraclito e nei pitagoriciEirene. Studia Graeca Et Latina 1 (57): 93-118. 2021.This paper examines the relation between Pythagorean and Heraclitean political views. I argue that for Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Archytas the cosmological and musical notions of harmony (ἁρμονία) and the related notion of concord (ὁμόνοια) have an intrinsic political significance. These thinkers variously reflect upon political harmony and concord, and agree that a crucial condition for it is law (νόμος), which according to Pythagoras and Heraclitus has a divine origin. I begin with the Heracl…Read more
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698Education, Conflict and Harmony in Book 1 of Plato's LawsJournal of Ancient Philosophy 2 (15): 29-52. 2021.Book 1 of Plato’s Laws, and particularly the image of the puppet introduced near its end, has been traditionally interpreted as presenting the moral psychology model that underlies the educational system delineated by the Athenian Stranger, which construes virtue as consonance between the non–rational and the rational elements of the soul. But a different and competing conception of virtue looms large in Laws 1, virtue as victory of the best part of the soul in psychic conflict. This paper argue…Read more
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18La asombrosa marioneta del Extranjero Ateniense: de la imagen a la filosofía en las Leyes de PlatónUniversitas Philosophica 36 (73): 121-146. 2019.This paper makes the claim that the overall structure of Plato’s Laws follows the principle of indirect access to the knowledge of human soul, which consists in the understanding that a philosophical approach to the soul is only possible initially through an image of it. The structure of the Laws can be interpreted as a movement towards the soul’s interior, beginning with the famous image of the puppet. According to this image, the movement opens with the analysis of the non-rational elements of…Read more
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionDoctoral student
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Classical Greek Philosophy |
Plato |