„Was jede Seele sucht und worumwillen sie alles tut“
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Rafael Ferber
Abstract
The article first (i) gives an exegesis of the famous passage in the Republic, 505d11-506a2. Attention is drawn to the fact that the principle that every soul does everything for the Good (panta prattei) can be translated in two ways: Every soul does everything for the sake of the Good, or goes to all lengths for the sake of the Good. Depending on the different translations, we have a different picture of the platonic Socrates in the Republic, an intellectualistic Socrates for whom pure irrational desires do not exist, or a Socrates who also accepts irrational desires. The article favours the first picture. Then it (ii) attempts to show that we can elucidate two dark points in the Socratic thesis that the Good is what every soul pursues and for which every soul does everything, with the help of Aquinas. Finally, the article (iii) outlines three substantive answers to the question ``What is the Good?'' - the henological, the perfectionist and the structuralist - and shows that these three answers lead into a trilemma. Instead of advancing a new answer, the article suggests an uncontroversial formal starting point for an answer to this question.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- „Was jede Seele sucht und worumwillen sie alles tut“
- The Paradox of Change in Plato's Theaetetus. Part I. An Emendation of the Text (155b1-2) and the Origin of Error
- La prescrizione nell'etica stoica. Un riesame
- L'apostasia del molteplice nel trattato Sui numeri di Plotino
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Le cause della fortuna: un'aporia. Aristotele, Fisica B 5.197a20-25
- Le azioni compiute sotto costrizione, le azioni “misteˮ e la nozione di volontarieta
- Aristotelian Reminiscences in Philo
- Pyrrhonism, Inquiry, and Rationality
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- K.M. Vogt, Belief and Truth. A Skeptic Reading of Plato
- F.J. Gonzalez, Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue
- J. Giovacchini, L'Empirisme d'Épicure
- J. Lallot, Études sur la grammaire alexandrine
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- „Was jede Seele sucht und worumwillen sie alles tut“
- The Paradox of Change in Plato's Theaetetus. Part I. An Emendation of the Text (155b1-2) and the Origin of Error
- La prescrizione nell'etica stoica. Un riesame
- L'apostasia del molteplice nel trattato Sui numeri di Plotino
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Le cause della fortuna: un'aporia. Aristotele, Fisica B 5.197a20-25
- Le azioni compiute sotto costrizione, le azioni “misteˮ e la nozione di volontarieta
- Aristotelian Reminiscences in Philo
- Pyrrhonism, Inquiry, and Rationality
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- K.M. Vogt, Belief and Truth. A Skeptic Reading of Plato
- F.J. Gonzalez, Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue
- J. Giovacchini, L'Empirisme d'Épicure
- J. Lallot, Études sur la grammaire alexandrine
