{"id":700,"date":"2025-10-01T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:21:34","slug":"polish-political-platos-in-brills-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Polish Political Platos in Brill’s Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought<\/a><\/em> edited by David Carter, Rachel Foxley, and Liz Sawyer is one of the latest volumes in the series (vol. 8, Leiden-Boston 2024). Contributors to this volume investigated a range of responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, exploring the ways in which political thinking has evolved from antiquity to the present day.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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One of the chapters in this book was authored by Tomasz Mr\u00f3z who discussed variety of Polish interpretations of Plato’s political works in studies written by nineteenth-century Polish authors (Plato\u2019s Political Works in Nineteenth-Century Polish Thought<\/a><\/em>, pp. 335-363), including historians of philosophy, philosophers and social thinkers. Their diverse views on the Republic<\/em> of Plato reflected the wealth of ideas which are present in Plato\u2019s opus. In spite of their various intellectual backgrounds and goals, all these authors found inspiration in Plato\u2019s work for the implementation of his political ideas into their own arguments touching upon contemporary social or political issues, including the questions of democracy, socialism and gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s say a few words about the authors presented in Mr\u00f3z’s chapter to give a glance of its content: Boles\u0142aw Limanowski (1835-1935), a socialist thinker, regarder Plato as a progressive philosopher, despite his disregard for democracy. For Wojciech Dzieduszycki (1848-1909), a conservative politician, Plato’s socialist and feminist ideas were too destructive for society to be implemented. Wincenty Lutos\u0142awski (1863-1954), a famous Plato scholar, considered Plato’s socialism as a natural consequence of his metaphysics and only a transitional step in his development. Stefan Pawlicki (1839-1916), a neo-Scholastic philosopher, claimed that even Plato’s most controversial political ideas (communism and feminism) had stemmed from his deep moral beliefs, but all their shortcomings were later to be corrected by Christianity. Eventually, Eugeniusz Jarra (1881-1973), a historian of legal philosophy, emphasised gender equality and the possibility of social promotion as progressive ideas supporting democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS.: this chapter was edited and improved by Una Maclean-Ha\u0144\u0107kowiak and is presented on Kudos <\/a>platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought edited by David Carter, Rachel Foxley, and Liz Sawyer is one of the latest volumes in the series (vol. 8, Leiden-Boston 2024). Contributors to this volume investigated a range of responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, exploring the ways in which political … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[197,231,74,284,288,285,73,76,289,8,287,5,56,286,24,79,55,4,64,42,6],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works","tag-19th-century","tag-231","tag-b-limanowski","tag-brill","tag-communism","tag-d-carter","tag-democracy","tag-e-jarra","tag-feminism","tag-in-english","tag-l-sawyer","tag-plato","tag-poland","tag-r-foxley","tag-republic","tag-s-pawlicki","tag-socialism","tag-t-mroz","tag-u-maclean-hanckowiak","tag-w-dzieduszycki","tag-w-lutoslawski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aphr.ifil.uz.zgora.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}