Thucydides, thinker of the political
One of the many disputes surrounding the interpretation of Thucydides' work lies in determining the genre of his writing. In this paper, Thucydides is considered as a political thinker, that is, an author that identifies certain underlying and founding features of a political order, rather than...
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I28-R247-article-129792023-08-31T17:57:37Z Thucydides, thinker of the political Tucídides, pensador de lo político Di Leo Razuk, Andrés Thucydides – Political – War – Transhistorical Tucídides – Político – Guerra – Transhistórico One of the many disputes surrounding the interpretation of Thucydides' work lies in determining the genre of his writing. In this paper, Thucydides is considered as a political thinker, that is, an author that identifies certain underlying and founding features of a political order, rather than as a historian of an ancient war. The approach developed here identifies four key concepts in the work of the Greek thinker: the notion of immanent and psychological cause (prophasis) as a more effective explanation in the face of mythical or final explanations when it comes to accounting for human events; the consideration of a problematic human nature (anthropeía phýsis) that transcends historical stages; the concealment (apokrýptein) of this nature in moments of normality and its irruption in moments of political crisis; and, finally, the primacy of desire (epithymía) over reason in the dynamics that drives the praxis of human beings. These concepts extracted from Thucydides' text form a theoretical corpus that will be taken up on more than one occasion by other thinkers who need to be able to think about a new political order. Hence, they have a trans-historical character Una de las tantas disputas en torno a la interpretación de la obra de Tucídides estriba en determinar el género de su escritura. En este trabajo se considera a Tucídides como un pensador de lo político —es decir, un autor que identifica algunos de los rasgos subyacentes a, y fundantes de, un orden político— más que como un historiador de una guerra antigua. La aproximación que aquí se desarrolla identifica cuatro conceptos claves en el texto del pensador griego: la noción de “causa” (próphasis) inmanente y psicológica como una explicación más efectiva que las míticas o finalistas a la hora de dar cuenta del acontecer humano; la consideración de una “naturaleza humana” (anthropeía phýsis) problemática que trasciende los estadios históricos; el “ocultamiento” (apokrýptein) de esta naturaleza en momentos de normalidad y su irrupción en momentos de crisis política; y, por último, el primado del “deseo” (epithymía) frente a la razón en la dinámica que impulsa la praxis de los seres humanos. Estos conceptos extraídos del texto de Tucídides forman un corpus teórico que serán retomados en más de una oportunidad por otros pensadores urgidos por pensar un nuevo orden político. De allí, que posean un carácter trans-histórico. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023-06-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/12979 10.34096/cf.n78.12979 Cuadernos de filosofía; Núm. 78 (2022): Enero-Junio 2362-485X 0590-1901 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/12979/11759 Derechos de autor 2023 Cuadernos de filosofía |
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One of the many disputes surrounding the interpretation of Thucydides' work lies in determining the genre of his writing. In this paper, Thucydides is considered as a political thinker, that is, an author that identifies certain underlying and founding features of a political order, rather than as a historian of an ancient war. The approach developed here identifies four key concepts in the work of the Greek thinker: the notion of immanent and psychological cause (prophasis) as a more effective explanation in the face of mythical or final explanations when it comes to accounting for human events; the consideration of a problematic human nature (anthropeía phýsis) that transcends historical stages; the concealment (apokrýptein) of this nature in moments of normality and its irruption in moments of political crisis; and, finally, the primacy of desire (epithymía) over reason in the dynamics that drives the praxis of human beings. These concepts extracted from Thucydides' text form a theoretical corpus that will be taken up on more than one occasion by other thinkers who need to be able to think about a new political order. Hence, they have a trans-historical character |
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