Parametri antichi dell’utopia

Abstract

The utopian character of Plato’s city in The Republic has been a main subject of discussion, centred especially on the characteristics of the proposed community and its incoherencies when assumed as a concrete political project. The aim of this paper is to analyse which parameters are used by Plato in his view of the best constitution and how these parameters became the criteria assumed by Aristotle in his general classification of political thought. Through Plato’s representation of Socrates’ activity when describing the city of the Republic it is possible to trace a genealogy of the modern concept of utopia.

Keywords

• utopia
• plato’s republic
• aristotle’s politics
• politeia
• paradigm
• painting