UTOPIA AND UTOPIC CONSTRUCTION IN PLATO'S THE REPUBLIC
UTOPIA AND UTOPIC CONSTRUCTION IN PLATO'S THE REPUBLIC
Author(s): Vlad MoldovanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Plato; The Republic; utopia; ideal city; reason; cardinal virtues.
Summary/Abstract: Utopia and utopic construction in Plato's The Republic. The paper outlines the complex process of conceiving an ideal construction of the city in Plato’s The Republic. Utopia becomes for Plato a true method of knowing a reality founded on the Idea. Imaginative freedom, control and ideal purging circumscribe such an approach.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 57/2012
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 23-34
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
