Plato on the Philosopher's Civic Oddness
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.17094Keywords:
Plato, Socrates, Aristophanes, Philosophy, astronomy, erosAbstract
Philosophy is an historical product, which is definitively consolidatedwith Plato and Aristotle. As it constitutes a novelty within the polis, it is not just regarded with suspicion from its very beginning, but it is also the target of severe criticism. Those who devote themselves to philosophy are stigmatized as odd people, as many classical texts show. Regarding his thinking and his practical proposal, the Academic gave continuity to the image of the philosopher as a crazy person. However, he did so in an ironic way. He suggested that the philosopher’s strangeness is not due to a real deviation from the behaviour that, by nature, is most suitable for humans, but the opposite, i.e. that it is caused by the wrong opinions of those who are not philosophers. In fact, apart from defining the nature of philosophy, one of the most urgent tasks that Plato has to deal with in his dialogues is making a defence of philosophy as the best way of life, depicting it as the most sensible and natural.
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