A necessidade da educação filosófica no projeto político da República de Platão

Abstract

The present work is inserted in the Political Science area in the Classical Political Theory, and it aims to achieve a study about the platonic political thought in the Republic. This conceptual- historical research was achieved based on a specialized literature review. The objective of understanding Plato’s political thought in the Republic indicated a specific aim: to introduce the manner as the philosopher thought the relation between the philosophy and the policy, as well as, the entailments that were done by him between the wisdom and policy or between the science and the government. The relation between the knowledge and the policy is in this study described in a synthesized exposure as the main motivation in Plato. If, in a general manner, there was in ancient Greece that started the development of what nowadays is policy, there was a huge measure- Plato’s thought that has preserved the philosophical reflection of the Greek policy. As a result of his labor nowadays it is common to find in philosophy handbooks, also in philosophy dictionaries, attributions done to Plato that confer himself the title of inaugurator of the occidental social thought or really the founder of the first social- political systematization of rational character.