Rosellini's Socrates: A Reading of the Andreia as a Civic Virtue
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.15970Keywords:
Socrates, cinema, virtue, Roberto Rossellini, politicsAbstract
This article studies the figure of Socrates in Rosellini’s eponymous 1971 film, through the analysis offered by the director of the evolution of the classical notion of andreia as a war virtue to a new configuration, framed in the civic realm of the polis, understood as a cohesive virtue of traditional features and the new demands of life in the city. The figure of Socrates is proposed as a turning point for some of the preconceptions shaping our society such as ethical-political stress, civic duty, and resistance to individual fulfillment in the contemporary social context.
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