"Why Plato Comes First": le emozioni nel mondo greco a partire da "Emotions in Plato"
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[1] University of Palermo
University of Palermo
Palermo, Italia
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- Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 43, Nº. 1, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Il nulla e il problema del fondamento / coord. por Giuseppe Nicolaci, Paolo Piccari), págs. 297-303
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
The paper aims to analyse the relevance of emotions in Plato and Aristotle through an examination of Emotions in Plato, a collection of studies conducted by Candiotto and Renaut. The main value of this volume is to underline the importance in Plato’s philosophy of πάϑη, which is usually neglected by scholars. Plato is considered as a thinker who rejected emotions, since they can be dangerous for the stability of the human soul and the city. On the contrary, Aristotle is regarded as the first theoretician of emotions, because he analysed πάϑη in Rhet. ii 2-11.
However, even if the Aristotelian theory of emotions can be considered the first one in a narrow theoretical sense, it is not the absolute first one: in his dialogues, Plato offered a dramatical phenomenology of emotions, which are not only irrational components of the soul, but have a prerational nature, and a fundamental role for the organization of the city.
