A suspicion: About the suppose hierarchy between metaphysics and politics in Plato’s thought

nº3 (july, 2009) • Archai: As Origens do Pensamento Ocidental

Autor: Wanderson Flor do Nascimento

Resumo:

This paper attempts to respond to a certain set of criticism, especially the ones inspired by Nietzsche, over the work of Plato. According to those nietzscheans (as Gilles Deleuze, for example) there is a hierarchy between metaphysics and politics at work in Plato's thought, the latter being enslaved by the first. The presumption here is that even if one cannot reject those criticism by affirming the contrary – that in Plato's thought, in all its expressions, is indeed metaphysics and all other branches of philosophy that are at the service of politics – to make a statement presuming this metaphysical trapping of Plato's politics would be at least problematic once one understands the place philosophy has in the city imagined by Plato.

Texto Completo: http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/archai/article/view/342/201

Palavras-Chave: Plato,Politics,Metaphysics,Critics,Invertion

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