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La cité idéale de Platon, un autre monde possible ?
The ideal city of Plato, another possible world?

Author(s): Franck Colotte
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: Utopia; Callipolis; imperfect cities; sôphrosynè; ideal

Summary/Abstract: The already multi-century literature on utopia has gained renewed interest in recent years through a series of publications that must serve as a response to the social and societal imbalances of our time. The only way to save the world would be to reinvent it. The origin of this approach is to look into the work of Platon. In his Republic, he describes an ideal city (“Callipolis”). Is this city an impossible to achieve utopia or rather an ideal presenting itself as a philosophical posture?

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 119-131
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French