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Aither 14/2015:8-33 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2015.012

Plato's Concept of the Political and the Problem of Political Distribution in the Republic

Jakub Jinek
Filosofická fakulta UK

The paper claims that in Plato there is a concept of the political whose irreducibility on one hand arises from the original multiplicity of people and their interests as well as from their sense of community and which on the other hand is rooted in Platonic dialectics of unity and multiplicity. To reveal this, the paper focuses on the problem of political distribution as conceived in the Republic by discussing the occurences of the idea of "doing one's own". The Republic offers a reflexive way of dealing with such pieces of traditional ethical teaching by retrieving - in a series of reformulations - its philosophical content but also by making use of its possible ambiguities as a signal of irreducibility of the sphere of the political.

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Jinek, J. (2015). Plato's Concept of the Political and the Problem of Political Distribution in the Republic. Aither, 7(14), 8-33. doi: 10.5507/aither.2015.012
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