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  1. Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism.Sarah Malanowski & Nicholas R. Baima - 2022 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (5):653-666.
    Many transhumanists see their respective movement as being rooted in ancient ethical thought. However, this alleged connection between the contemporary transhumanist doctrine and the ethical theory of antiquity has come under attack. In this paper, we defend this connection by pointing out a key similarity between the two intellectual traditions. Both traditions are committed to the “radical transformation thesis”: ancient ethical theory holds that we should assimilate ourselves to the gods as far as possible, and transhumanists hold that we should (...)
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  • The Descent of Reason: Reading Plato’s Cave as Psychic Drama.Ryan M. Brown - 2024 - Rhizomata 12 (2):173-215.
    Plato’s Republic is governed by an analogy drawn between the structures of cities and souls. Because the inner workings of souls are difficult to discern, we might better find the soul’s nature and virtues by looking at the city’s nature and virtues. Despite successfully using the analogy to discern the nature of the soul, its virtues, and its proper ordering, the Republic frequently obscures the very analogy that functions as its guiding thread, and it is not at all obvious whether (...)
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  • La obligación política en Platón como un problema de doble vía: perspectivas desde Apología, Critón y República.Pablo Bezus - 2025 - Revista de Filosofía (La Plata) 54 (2):e113.
    El problema de la obligación política es tratado tempranamente en la filosofía política por parte de Platón, quien en distintos diálogos presenta argumentos que sostienen la existencia de dicha obligación, así como sus límites, con lo que constituye un antecedente clave de las elaboraciones teóricas modernas sobre este tema. En el presente trabajo abordo de forma analítica las diferentes fundamentaciones ofrecidas en tres textos del autor, Apología, Critón y República, mostrando no sólo la variedad de argumentos teóricos que se encuentran (...)
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  • Re-examining the ‘Compulsion Problem’ in Plato’s Republic.Stephen Oppong Peprah - 2021 - Plato Journal 22:177-195.
    Scholars have made several attempts to understand the ‘compulsion problem’ in the Republic, namely, why Plato compels the philosopher-rulers to descend into the cave to rule. These attempts, however, fail to properly incorporate two other main instances of compulsion in the dialogue into the discussion: first, the compulsion in Plato’s concept of philosophical rulership, which requires that one can be a ruler in Kallipolis if and only if one is a product of the coincidence of philosophy and politics; second, the (...)
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