Philosophers typically present ideal and nonideal theories as distinct analytical frameworks. For example, Plato whom viewed the realm of becoming as “impenetrable and full of shadows,” presented his Republic as a top-down idealized view of…
Category: Classical Philosophy
Zōon Politikon’s Doppelgänger: Comparing the Political Existence of Man in the Political Philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas
Writing more than 1650 years after Aristotle’s death, Thomas Aquinas inhabited a world that would have been absolutely foreign to Aristotle. Whereas Aristotle lived before the age of monotheistic religion, Aquinas was a Catholic priest…
The Meaning of Labour In John Locke’s Theory of Labour
The Second Treatise of Government (1690) presents the presumed right to appropriate parts of the commons as private property by labouring (hereafter, theory of property) as the justification for the political and economic inequality between…
Book III, The Republic
9.1.2 Purifying the Feverish City: Stories about the Gods & Heroes (386a-392a) To continue purifying the Feverish City of luxury, they next reflect on the stories young guardians, if they’re to become courageous,1 philosophic, and…