Gold, Women and Corruption af the polis

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gold, Women and Corruption af the polis

Original language description

The paper deals with the motive of sharing property and women in Book V of the Republic in the context of Plato&apos;s reflections on corruptive factors threatening the stability of the polis. In Book VIII and IX these destructive factors are recognized as an insatiable desire for pleasure, presented in a common form of universal desire for money and property. In this context, the paper analyzes the link between the economic-erotic tendencies that threaten the community and the element of femininity. The core of the paper is the analysis of the relationship between three concepts: eros ? gold -woman. The interdependence of these three motives in Greek imagination is at first presented in the traditional context of Greek epic and drama, where the relationship between women and gold is clearly established, whether in cosmetic-erotic context or in the context of women&apos;s role as a keeper of domestic wealth. Now the permanent threat of failure of this task, again a significant topic of poetic genres, as well as traditionally conceived corruptive power of gold, may prove to be a possible starting point for the analysis of the role of the collectivist proposal in the project of the Republic. In addition to this traditional background, there is also the contemporary context in which marriage is firmly placed in the area of public transactions and competition for honour and profit. Against this background, the Platonic project of collectivism of property and women is revealed as a broadly conceived attempt to come to terms with a deeply shared concern about the potential disruption of domestic and communal coexistence stemming from the area of what is inner and private. Externalization of the inner space of the family, as well as modification and transformation of various forms of desire and eros carried out in the community of guardians allows Plato to cope with these concerns on the background of thought patterns established in the Greek tradition itself.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

For Friends, All Is Shared. Friendship and Politics in Ancient Greek Thought

ISBN

978-80-7414-942-9

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

29-43

Number of pages of the book

262

Publisher name

Oikoymenh

Place of publication

Praha

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