The Degeneration of the philosopher according to Plato Part I

Abstract

This research had the initiative to study one of the most important philosophers of all time. This despite the gigantic bibliographic material with which it has been approached, and even when Plato himself considers that no analysis of his work would better express his thought as he himself captured it (Letter VII, 341 B - D). The pages that have been prepared cannot be subtracted from a series of topics that we have sometimes touched upon only in passing and others that have been deepened, given their importance for the purpose of what is essentially pursued. The Republic has been taken as the fundamental text, but this does not mean that it is a detailed analysis of the entire work, nor that the purpose is to explain it, since many researchers have already done it enough. In this regard, the same ordering has not been strictly followed and most of the Platonic quotations correspond more to a personal interpretation than to a literal translation. The rest of the Platonic work has been in the same line an indispensable support material, like all the studies that have contributed to a clearer appreciation.