Vol. 34 (2022). Número extraordinario

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  • Koinōnía y Justicia. De la República al Parménides 

    Gutiérrez, Raúl (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    The main reason why the developmental interpretation of the platonic Parmenides believes this dialogue constitutes a crisis in the development of Plato’s thought is the idea that the philosopher criticizes therein its ...

  • Plato on the Mechanics of Koinōnia Formation 

    Stephanides, Stephanos (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    This paper argues that, in order to understand the unified relations that are commonly predicated of koinōnia in the ethical, political, and cosmological spheres respectively, one must first appreciate certain prerequisite ...

  • Three Aspects of the Linguistic Communion (Koinōnia) in Plato’s Sophist: Articulation of Letters, Predication of Names and Accord (Homologia) of Logoi 

    Karagöz, Taha (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    In the Sophist, Plato presents the possibility of the separation of things in relation to each other based on the communion (koinōnia) of logos. In this study, I discuss the linguistic communion revealed in the dialogue ...

  • The Koinōnia of Non-Being and Logos in the Sophist Account of Falsehood 

    Wiitala, Michael (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    At Sophist 260e3-261a2, the Eleatic Stranger claims that in order to demonstrate that falsehood is, he and Theaetetus must first track down what speech (logos), opinion (doxa), and appearance (phantasia) are, and then ...

  • Psicología, política y poesía en República IV y X 

    Soares, Lucas (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    In this paper, I argue that in the Republic the possibility of a good koinōnia is hindered by the emotional potency and psychological perversion of mimetic-pleasurable poetry, which stimulates and strengthens the irrational ...

  • La ciencia en sí misma y la ciencia en nosotros: en torno al rol de la epistḗmē en el Fedro 

    García, Gabriel (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    The view of the τόπος ὑπερουράνιος in the Phaedrus is described according to three contents: justice (δικαιοσύνη), soundness (σωφροσύνη) and science (ἐπιστήμη). Only the latter is specified (247d6-e2). In „‘Der Geistcharakter ...

  • Common Ground or Double Bind? The Possibility of Dialogue in Plato’s Crito 

    Feldman, Sarah (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    Much recent scholarship on Plato’ Crito has revolved around the controversy about the relationship and possible compatibility between the arguments Socrates gives in his own person (SocratesS) and those he gives in the ...

  • Koinōnia and the Psychology of Possession 

    Konrádová, Veronika (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    This paper addresses the concept of koinōnia discussed in Plato’s Republic. It focuses on the specific ways the term enters the discussion about social organisation within the guardian class, such as the proposal for ...

  • Presentación. Areté Vol. 34 (2022). Número extraordinario 

    Gutiérrez, Raúl (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)

  • The Koinon Agathon of Plato’s Charmides 

    Pichanick, Alan (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    Given the number of references to koinōnia in Plato’s dialogues, it is striking that the phrase “common good” (koinon agathon) is used only once – at Charmides 166d. Socrates asks his interlocutor Critias a question, “Do ...

  • El comercio según Platón: ¿factor de división o de comunidad política? 

    Helmer, Etienne (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    “Commerce according to Plato: a factor of division or political community?”. It is often thought that the Greek philosophers despise both wholesale trade between cities as retail trade within cities. According to this ...

  • Communication and Kinship. On “Koinōnia” and “Syngeneia” in Plato’s Dialogues 

    Delle Donne, Carlo (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the multiple functions of the notion of koinōnia in Plato’s dialogues. Koinōnia and its absence characterize reality as a whole: both the intelligible and the sensible entities ...

  • The Women’s Law (tou gynaikeiou nomos) in the Kallipolis of Plato’s Republic 

    Cornelli, Gabriele; Maia, Rosane (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    The Women’s Law discussed in book V of the Republic, known as the first wave, is a notorious example of Socrates’ reformist intention to achieve justice in the polis. The legislation for women, in general, has historically ...

  • Koinōnia in the Symposium: from community to communion? 

    Lenner, Zdenek (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de HumanidadesPE, 2022-03-28)
    Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Erōs as a god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or at ...