Plato Sailing against the Current: The Image of the Ship in the Republic

• Autores: Gabriele Cornelli
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 63-80
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The image of the ship opens up a series of images which are essential to Platonic philosophy in general and to the sixth and seventh books of the Republic in particular. Here the images of the Sun, the line, and the cave are found, and this is the reason why these two books of the Republic are among the most studied of Plato’s works. However, as Keyt has noticed, this ship image has received much less attention from the commentators, especially when compared to the other three. In fact, even if almost every work of political science has a footnote...