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This work is the product of a series of thirty lectures at the Goulandris-Horn Foundation during the academic year 1997-1998 and correspondingly at the Vassilis and Marina Theocharakis Foundation from January 2012 to January 2013, with a break during the summer. It is not merely a repetition.
The first series of lectures provided the framework and the spirit of the approach; in the second, I sought to delve into depths that had been gestating during the intervening fifteen years. I already saw them unfolding and decided to wait.
The subject of my interpretive reading this time is Plato's Republic. It is understood that I do not have in mind any return to the past. However, as material progress is not necessarily moral, since it is not dictated by the imperatives of effectiveness, a rebirth in the sources of principles and their timeless activity can constitute a sufficient measure for checking the deviation between the material and the spiritual.
We continually re-read the classics to evaluate more maturely the gains and losses of our choices in historical perspective. We proceed with the reckoning through the lens of the logic of origins and the manner in which we each time engage with them. We syllable the texts to confront their meanings and questioningly introduce our time into their intellectual duration in order to give it shape and recognize its value elements.
The analytical work with its information helps to some extent the reflective processing of texts in the interpretive endeavor. The texts of the past still speak to us today, mainly because we share deeper concerns with them and secondarily because we know the biographical details of their authors and the historical context of their societies.
A hallmark work of culture like the Republic would not tell us much beyond what it writes, if we did not face timelessly, while respecting the proportions, common or similar problems with Plato.
On the contrary, the archaeological, let me say it this way, perspective necessitates our insistence on excavations and the restoration of ruins or meticulous measurements of monuments, alongside a cyclical time, undoubtedly laden with knowledge, but a time that neither mobilizes nor, much more, empowers.
And how can we empower when, with the deluge of information, the world of the text becomes objective, closed in the infinitesimal of meaning? The liberated energy of the text, which poetically strides over time as a starting point for a new beginning, mobilizes the spirit.
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
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- Author
- Stelios Ramfos
- Publisher
- Armos
- Subtitle
- Reading of the State of Plato
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789605277895
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Dimensions
- 17x25 cm
- Release Date
- 11/2013
- Publication Date
- 2013
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- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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