Lenguaje y política en Platón
ISSN: 2445-2297
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: Las pasiones políticas en la Grecia clásica Diego S. Garrocho Salcedo (ed.)
Issue: 4
Pages: 91-106
Type: Article
More publications in: Fons: Revista de estudios sobre la civilización clásica y su recepción
Abstract
The following paper considers some aspects of the relation between language and politics in Plato’s. After a brief interpretation of some of the theses of Plato’s philosophy of language, the paper analyses the political and moral power that Plato identifies in language, and ponders specific uses of language proposed by Plato in education, and his critique of tragedy.