Love and Reason in the Educational Project of the Platonic City
Keywords:
Education, Polis, Soul, Reason, LoveAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to show how the Platonic conception of education is structured by combining rationality with the impulse of love. For the philosopher of the Academy, the souls of mortals are only able to recover their transcendent nature if endowed with reason, because reason alone allows the soul to aspire towards what is “best”. Although rationality is capable of concentrating in souls their ability to move towards the Good, souls will achieve nothing if they are not moved by Love. Therefore Love and Reason, united in the “love of knowledge”, are the engine and the ultimate goal of the educational process.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The contents of the manuscript have been tacitly or explicitly approved by the responsible authorities where the research was carried out.
Upon acceptation of the manuscript, the author agrees to allow its publication by Hypnos, declining pecuniary gains due from copyright. If the manuscript is published later in other media, the author agrees to always give credits of its first publication in Hypnos.
If the submitted document includes figures, tables, or large sections of text previously published, the author declares himself responsible for having obtained permission of the original copyright owners of these items for both the online and printed publication of this journal. Credits for copyrighted material must be properly attributed in the manuscript.
A revista 