Witwickiego interpretacja Platona (Objaśnienie do Państwa)

• Authors: Mateusz Nieć

Title variants

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WITWICKI’S INTERPRETATION OF PLATO (COMMENTARY TO PLATO’S STATE)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Who is Witwicki? Władysław Witwicki (1878–1948) is a psychologist and a philosopher, a man of Renaissance (painter, sculptor, writer), a historian of arts as well as a famous translator of Plato. He translated almost all works by Plato, he wrote 3780 pages about Plato. I analyze only Commentary by Witwicki, not the political treatise State by Plato. According to Witwicki, State is a treatise on modern politics and history. Plato became a pretext to analyze the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, and, in fact, Poland in 1948. Witwicki describes Stalinizm, a left totalitarian political system as a philosopher and a psychologist. He writes short sentences, often single words, he expresses emotions, not just cold views of a scientist.

Keywords

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political theory; political psychology; totalitarianism; Stalinism; antique-modern; propaganda

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Studia nad Autorytaryzmem i Totalitaryzmem
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67 – 81

Contributors

author

Mateusz Nieć

• Politechnika Wrocławska