Pleonexia: the absent centre of Platoʼs Republic

Authors

  • Nemrod Carrasco
Keywords: Plato, The Republic, Glauco, pleonexia, justice

Abstract

Pleonexia is a platonic category that is much more complicated that one could think. Traditionally associated to the positions held by Calicles and Thrasimacus, the first aspect pointed out in The Republic is that pleonexia is not only the constitutive engine behind every city, but also a fundamental referential point of the platonic conception of justice. There lies the paradox of the transit from Socratesʼ healthy city to Glaucoʼs fevorous city: far from representing the loss of justice, it is defined by the possibility to conceive the city from the permanent tension between pleonexiaʼs common indetermination and the limit that must redirect it politically.

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Published
26-01-2010
How to Cite
Carrasco, N. (2010). Pleonexia: the absent centre of Platoʼs Republic. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (45), 71–84. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/93281
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