TRUTH, PLURALITY, AND POLITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HANNAH ARENDT’S SOCRATES

• Authors: Pageau-St-Hilaire Antoine
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s Socrates. I argue that Arendt construes Socrates as a model of the compatibility of philosophy and politics. This model uniquely articulates this compatibility through a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, where truth is conceived as a perspectival disclosure of meaning in the plural and discursive world of politics. I further contend that the more solitary features of Arendt’s Socrates (thinking as internal dialogue, and speechless wonder) also contribute to the political realm as a site of truth.

Keywords

EN

ARENDT; SOCRATES; TRUTH; HERMENEUTICS; PHENOMENOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 530 – 544

Contributors

author

Pageau-St-Hilaire Antoine

• Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, Room 8101, 55 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5543-2060

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.4.5