The dark side of phrónēsis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy
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| contents | The dark side of phrónēsis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy BRUCE KRAJEWSKI Lengua y Literatura Gadamer Xenophon prudence Phrónēsis Aristotle In his Ethics, Aristotle joins sōphrosunē and phrónēsis as synonyms. In approximately the same time frame, Xenophon provides a Wittgensteinian account of a go-and-look instance of what sōphrosunē looked like in one ancient Greek context. We have a disturbing description of sōphrosunē in action. It leaves a reader with quite a different picture of the meaning of these two key words from the staid, peaceful, deliberative contemporary interpretations, particularly in Continental philosophy, that attempt to make both phrónēsis and sōphrosunē the foundation for a praiseworthy ethics and politics. Continental philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer attended closely to Aristotelian phrónēsis (not the Xenophonic variety), but were unable to put that learning into practice in their own ethical and political lives, making one wonder why followers of Heidegger and Gadamer continue to insist on ethical programs based in the Heideggerian and Gadamerian phronetic tradition, where Aristotle has supplanted Odysseus as the model most associated with phrónēsis and sōphrosunē. 2011 artículo científico 0103-4316 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=601770892002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6017 Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos application/pdf Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (Brasil) Num.1-2 Vol.24 |
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| spellingShingle | The dark side of phrónēsis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy BRUCE KRAJEWSKI Lengua y Literatura Gadamer Xenophon prudence Phrónēsis Aristotle The dark side of phrónēsis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy BRUCE KRAJEWSKI Lengua y Literatura Gadamer Xenophon prudence Phrónēsis Aristotle In his Ethics, Aristotle joins sōphrosunē and phrónēsis as synonyms. In approximately the same time frame, Xenophon provides a Wittgensteinian account of a go-and-look instance of what sōphrosunē looked like in one ancient Greek context. We have a disturbing description of sōphrosunē in action. It leaves a reader with quite a different picture of the meaning of these two key words from the staid, peaceful, deliberative contemporary interpretations, particularly in Continental philosophy, that attempt to make both phrónēsis and sōphrosunē the foundation for a praiseworthy ethics and politics. Continental philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer attended closely to Aristotelian phrónēsis (not the Xenophonic variety), but were unable to put that learning into practice in their own ethical and political lives, making one wonder why followers of Heidegger and Gadamer continue to insist on ethical programs based in the Heideggerian and Gadamerian phronetic tradition, where Aristotle has supplanted Odysseus as the model most associated with phrónēsis and sōphrosunē. 2011 artículo científico 0103-4316 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=601770892002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6017 Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos application/pdf Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (Brasil) Num.1-2 Vol.24 |
| title | The dark side of phrónēsis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura Gadamer Xenophon prudence Phrónēsis Aristotle |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=601770892002 |