This text studies the scenarios in which violence appears in ancient Greece, to demonstrate that the purpose of the visibility of violence in the tragic drama, as Jacqueline de Romilly says, is to give a lesson to men through extraordinary…

In the history of philosophy, the opposition between epistēmē and  téchnē has been conventional. Whether Plato or Aristotle is interpreted, or whether Archimedes, Ctesibius, Philo of Byzantium or Heron of Alexandria are revised, there is a marginalization of the téchnē as compared…

In Republic X Plato dismisses any possibility for dramatic genres to be useful, not even for a controlled release of passions. Therefore, the Aristotelian approach of catharsis has been comprehended as a response to this refusal. However, in the Laws,…

En este texto se intenta mostrar que la radicalización de la tesis expresada por Platón en el libro X de la República no permite “apreciar” el valor que el filósofo ateniense sabe que posee la poesía, pues ella podría ser…

Censure and exclusion of The Republic are characteristics of many utopias, which become dystopias precisely because of turning to them. Plato´s reasons to censure certain types of poetry are ethical and political ones, although his arguments are epistemological (the poets…

Despite the fact that one of the objectives of the platonic approach in The Republic about guardians’ character education is to criticize, censure, and exile the poets and the mimetic poetry as a “pedagogic resource” due to their uselessness as…

En la 5ª y 6ª disertación del Comentario a la República de Platón Proclo se centra en rescatar tanto a los “forjadores de mitos”, Homero y Hesíodo, como a sus críticos, Sócrates y Platón (República III y X). En este…

My purpose is to suggest and open a dialogue between Plato and Adorno, and for this I have chosen the concept of mimesis, a concept that plays a central role in both thinkers both epistemologically and aesthetically. While Plato uses…

Este trabajo parte del fenómeno de constitución del diálogo socrático como formato discursivo para avanzar en la caracterización del modo en que varios representantes de este movimiento comprenden los límites del lenguaje, su poeticidad y su capacidad para representar lo…

The strangeness caused by the cynic gesture and verb is well known since ancient times regarding philosophical praxis. This paper will challenge, in cynical terms and according to his way of living and thinking, the notions of culture and beauty,…