Plato – Summary of the Banquet
I. We understand at first that it is Apollodorus who is going to tell the testimony of Aristodemus. Apollodorus: Well then, here they are, more or less; but it is …
Category: Philosophy
Is justice telling the truth?
Plato in The Republic reports a discussion between Socrates and Cephalus. Is justice to always tell the truth? Is justice to give back to everyone what one has received? Plato …
Sophocles : praise of love
Sophocles is the model of the author of tragedies according to Aristotle. In Antigone, written in 442 BC, Sophocles tells with subtlety the psychological struggle of the heroine of the same …
Plato – Cultivating the soul and the body
Which arts should be cultivated? How do we cultivate the body? How do we cultivate the soul? Plato makes Socrates say in the Gorgias that there are two substances: the …
Is ownership fair?
Is property a right? Is it Just? One of the current positions is to consider property as a natural right. However, Jean-Jacques Rousseau reminds us that originally, the land belongs …
Friedrich Nietzsche and health
In The Gay Knowledge, Friedrich Nietzsche proposes a reflection on health, and more particularly the health of the soul. Friedrich Nietzsche does not imagine a reality separate from the body, …