Quale Platone per la politica?
ARTICOLI / 1 / di Mauro Bonazzi, Riccardo Chiaradonna Plato has been celebrated for centuries as the champion of the contemplative life. Such a description of Plato will be probably striking for most...
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Love of Beauty in Aristotle’s Politics. The Case of Ostracism
ARTICOLI / 2 / di Elena Irrera In this paper I examine love of beauty (φιλοκαλία) in Aristotle’s thought, and suggest that he treats it as an emotion (πάθος) able to develop and...
The Role of Emotions, Desires and Passions in Politics. Machiavelli’s Political Psychology of Motivation
ARTICOLI / 3 / di Manuel Knoll This article shows that human emotions, desires, and passions play an important role in Machiavelli’s analysis and theory of politics. The paper claims that Machiavelli developed a...
«A Statesman Should Know the Soul». On Emotional Rationality in Friendship
CONTRIBUTI/ 1 / di Jonas Holst In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle urges the statesman to study to soul. Yet, what insight into the human soul did he hold in store for the statesman? Aristotle tends...
Plato’s Phaedrus after Descartes’ Passions. Reviving Reason’s Political Force
CONTRIBUTI/ 2 / di Joshua Hall For this special issue, dedicated to the historical break in what one might call ‘the politics of feeling’ between ancient ‘passions’ (in the ‘soul’) and modern ‘emotions’...
