PLATONOV FAIDON: POMSTA BÁSNIKOM ZA SOKRATA?

• Authors: Jaroslav Cepko

Title variants

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Plato’s Phaedo: A revenge on poets for the case Socrates?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The present article focuses on the dramatic context of Plato’s dialogue Phaedo tracing in it, in one hand, a confrontation of philosophical and poetical approaches and, inter-textual references to the Apology on the other hand. Consequently, Plato’s intention as the author seems to be double: take a “revenge” for the trial and execution of Socrates, as well as to put the high philosophy “on trial”. This testing of the boundaries of the philosophy itself can be only launched from the standpoint of a competing side, which is poetry. That is why in Plato’s work the poetry, working with mythos, remains a permanent incentive to descend from the heights of idealism to a lower, second-best type of philosophy which takes into account the real conditions.

Keywords

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PHAEDO; PHILOSOPHY; POETRY; LOGOS; MYTHOS; SELF-QUESTIONING

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 236 – 245

Contributors

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Jaroslav Cepko

• Katedra filozofie FF UMB, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic