//// Abstract: This essay tries to think with Plato (not against nor from him) the idea of justice, which structures the city and the human soul in the Republic, and the platonic self-critique displayed in several late ...

//// Abstract: This essay explores the difference between the erotic Socrates portrayed in the Symposium and the apparently anerotic Socrates of the Phaedo. The interpretation of the first dialogue is limited to a comparison ...

//// Abstract: Starting from a brief restatement of the everlasting “Socratic problem”, this paper deals with a famous passage of Plato’s Apology (surely one of the main sources of the Socratic legend), the story about the ...

//// Abstract: This article proposes that: I. The dialogic content of Euripides tragedies includes a poetic reflection on the human tragic condition. Because of our human insufficiency we need communication and completion. ...

//// Abstract: The paper starts from some contradictory interpretations of the character of Socrates, to think over the fate of this paradigmatic philosopher. In order to do so, it restates how this character brings forth ...

//// Abstract: The author analyzes F. Hölderlin’s and F. Nietzsche’s proposals about the presence of myths in Western Modernity. In his text, Martiarena examines some of Hölderlin’s theoric approaches and poems, as well ...

//// Abstract: The article analyzes Nietzsche’s critique against Socrates specifically in Die Geburt der Tragödie. It explains the way in which Nietzsche considered Socrates as the first symbol of western rationalism, and ...

//// Abstract: The bequest of Socrates was received in several ways. This article revises the “sapiential derivation” of Socraticism, according to the Cynic, Stoic and Skeptic schools. All these philosophical trends deepen ...

//// Abstract: Although in the Apology Socrates claims that he goes around exhorting people to moral excellence, in the dialogues we never see him exhorting anyone, but only examining definitions of virtue. We can understand ...