The role of the paradigma in Plato’s Republic V

Authors

  • Thiago Bezerra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61378/enun.v5i1.98

Keywords:

Plato, paradigma, politics, metaphysics

Abstract

My purpose in this article is to address the paradigm as presented by the character Socrates in passage 472c-e of Book V of Plato's Republic. My approach will be limited to the analysis of this passage which I consider central to understanding the relationship between paradigm and method in the Republic as a justification for Socrates's investigation of justice. In short, I intend here to show that the method used by Socrates is a producer of paradigms. A paradigm is a model constituted by a descriptivist procedure that serves as an evaluative criterion with which approximations can be made.

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2021-10-12

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Revista Enunciação - v. 5, n.1 (2020)

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