Man as god s puppet: a reading of platonic Laws / O homem como marionete dos deuses : uma leitura das Leis de Platão

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2006

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This research shows that Plato, in the Laws dialogue, enables the operation of political art through the care for the soul in its nature and disposition (I, 650b). A reflection on the disposition of the soul occurs by means of the puppet myth, in which Plato describes the war inside man, showing how to deal with the tension between vice and virtue caused by pleasure and pain; and postulates axioms determining the nature of love relations and the care we must have with the soul s affections. Plato elaborates in Laws a Constitution stemming from three questions: the symposium, the sissitia for women and procreation, which provides the institution of a new ethos which will turn the citizen of the Cretian polis into a puppet to the service of the divinities (I, 645b). Thus, in our thesis, we reflect, in the scope of platonic philosophy, on the triple relation of man, the divinity and the law, while there is the possibility of realizing the political art

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puppets prazer deuses war alma guerra public opinion plesure filosofia antiga marionetes boatos (opnião publica) ancient philosophy gods rumors soul

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