The Connection Between the Theorists of Phýsis with the Tragic and Justice

Abstract

The article aims at analyzing the connection between the theorists of phýsis with the tragic and the justice. This link is proposed as a way of theorizing the essence of the Justice and the tragic, that truly expresses the Greek idea of Justice. The investigation intends to recover the original meaning of justice as a theoretical foundation to Philosophy of Law. It starts from the examination of the concept of phýsis in the presocratic thinking, mainly in Anaximander, Heraclitus and Parmenides, as a possibility to conceive the essential elements of justice. The relation between literature and justice reveals the importance of the interdisciplinarity as the apprehension of the human condition and the development of a critical consciousness towards the problems concerning the philosophy of law, still crucial to contemporary dilemmas.

Keywords

• Phýsis, Justiça, Trágico, Filosofia do direito, Literatura