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

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