The representativity of the concept of plurality in Socrates and Plato: reflections in the light of Hannah Arendt’s thoughts

• Autor(a) principal: Schütz, Jenerton Arlan
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Neitzel, Odair
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Aufklärung (João Pessoa. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/arf/article/view/67260
• topic: Policy; Plurality; Hannah Arendt; Política; Pluralidade; Hannah Arendt

This article is the result of a bibliographic and hermeneutic investigation. In the light of Hannah Arendt's thought, the writing thematizes the representativeness of the conception of human plurality present in the reflections of Socrates and Plato. First, it investigates how the conception of plurality is present in the thought of Socrates, considered by Arendt, a political philosopher par excellence and the one who established plurality as the law of the Earth. Therefore, the conception of plurality manifested in Plato's reflections is analyzed and, mainly, some of the consequences resulting from Socrates' condemnation and death. We consider this confrontation essential to recover and/or point out the importance of plurality in spaces of social participation, accomplishing with others what certainly could not be done alone and/or isolated. Plurality is, therefore, composed of singularities, and the fact that we are together with other singular beings is what impels us to communicate with each other.