Platone: The Republic Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Republic has been Plato’s most famous and widely read dialogue. As in most other Platonic dialogues the main character is Socrates. It is generally accepted that the Republic belongs to the dialogues of Plato’s middle period. In Plato’s early dialogues, Socrates refutes the accounts of his interlocutors and the discussion ends with no satisfactory answer to the

Literary Theory “Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean. Literary theory is a description of the underlying principles, one might say the tools, by which we attempt to understand literature. Tutto

Ancient Ethics Ethical reflection in ancient Greece and Rome starts from all of an agent’s ends or goals and tries to systematize them. Our ends are diverse. We typically want, tra l'altro, material comfort, health, respect from peers and love from friends and family, successful children, healthy emotional lives, and intellectual achievement. We see all these things as good for us. Così, systematizing our

Platone: The Timaeus There is nothing easy about the Timaeus. Its length, limited dramatic discourse, and arid subject-matter make for a dense and menacing work. But make no mistake, it is a menacing work of great subtly and depth. Cosmology has traditionally received the bulk of scholarly attention. No less important, Tuttavia, are the dialogue’s narrative elements, beginning with its characters. Socrates needs no introduction,

Maurizio Blondel (1861-1949) L’importanza di Blondel è stata in gran parte nei circoli filosofici teologici e cattolici in Francia, Germania, Spagna, Italia, e Québec. Tra molti altri autori importanti del XX secolo, Blondel è responsabile della “nuova teologia”, che ha avuto un ruolo tanto importante nelle deliberazioni e nelle argomentazioni del Concilio Vaticano II. Anche le letture di Blondel di altre figure filosofiche presentano una sorprendente somiglianza con il tipo di