El arte de tejer como paradigma del buen político en Platón

Authors

  • Francesc Casadesús Bordoy
Keywords: art of weaving, diairesis, statesman, paradign, lis, social fabric

Abstract

In the Statesman Plato resourced to the paradigm of the art of weaving to define the technique that the good governor must possess. However, with this analogy Plato equated political activity with the most characteristic of women’s activities in Ancient Greece. In such a way, Plato recognized that the philosopher-king, as he had put forward in the Republic, should give way to an expert that, like women weaving, knows the technique to weave the social fabric well. However, Plato did nothing more than propose a model that had already been put in Lysistrata’s mouth by Aristophanes, when ironically postulating a government headed by women, who had no match in the art of weaving.

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Casadesús Bordoy, F. (2010). El arte de tejer como paradigma del buen político en Platón. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, 9–18. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/118871
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Filosofía antigua y medieval