Plato and ἀδύνατον: The Alibi of One Utopia
Алексей Глухов.
Философ (МГУ), переводчик сочинений Х. Арендт, Н. Лумана, Ф. Анкерсмита. Oбласть интересов — политическое мышление в aнтичности и в современную эпоху. Автор монографии «Политическая логика Платона и „преодоление платонизма“ мыслителями постницшеанской волны» (в печати).
Email: agloukhov@hse.ru
Ключевые слова:
Plato; political philosophy; Republic; colonization; utopia; logos; impossible landscape; territorialization
The paper discusses the realistic application of Plato’s Kallipolis, providing results of recent studies on Greek colonization and cultural poetics. The Republic is just one among other colonization projects proposed by Athenian intellectuals in 4th century BC . Participants of the dialogue are quite familiar with real colonization practices. Socrates gives concise and clear indications on the typical recolonisation scenario to implement. The notoriously enigmatic saying that the ideal polis is to be found “nowhere on earth,” should be examined in the context of legendary tales about the foundations of colonies.