Come vivere per godersi la vecchiaia; analisi della conversazione di Socrate e Cefalo (Pl. Rep. 328b-331d)
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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How to live to enjoy the old age? The analysis of the dialogue between Socrates and Cephalus (Rep. 328b-331d)
Abstract
The dialogue between Socrates and Cephalus is an introduction to the deliberations on human life
which are elaborated in the further books of Plato’s Republic. Socrates talks with Polemarchus’s
father about old age, the influence of wealth on human life and about justice. Cephalus is not a
philosopher but he possesses knowledge which springs from his life experience. He becomes resigned
to his fate, accepts his limitations connected with his old age and in his life he is driven by
simple rules of justice – not to hurt people and to make offerings to the gods.
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Plato, old age, wealth, justice, acceptance of one’s fate
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Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 51-61
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978-83-232-2153-1