Cities of the Warriors, Cities of the Sages

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F15%3A10312728" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/15:10312728 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.26.1.0220" target="_blank" >http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.26.1.0220</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.26.1.0220" target="_blank" >10.5325/utopianstudies.26.1.0220</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cities of the Warriors, Cities of the Sages

Original language description

Ancient discourses on utopia range from nostalgic evocations of a peaceful Golden Age to the forward-looking projects of a well-ordered society free of internal violence. It is this second perspective that connects to the issue of how to maintain the fragile equilibrium between war and civil war. The idea of using the former as a remedy against the latter is present in the blueprint of the just city whose hypothetical generation is depicted in Plato's Republic. Reading Plato with Thucydides enables us to see how both the diagnosis of civil strife's causes and the (impossibly utopian) remedy connect to a certain underlying conception of man. Not unlike Platonic utopia, conceived as an artificial remedy to natural inner conflicts, some Hellenistic and Greco-Roman philosophies of peace share in the vision of an ever-expanding ""circle"" of the city. However, their understanding of human nature is different and, despite some complicity between cosmopolitanism and imperialism, they are more

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

—

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Utopian studies

ISSN

1045-991X

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

220-234

UT code for WoS article

000353528500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—