- Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
- Edited by Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Lavoro, tecnica e società in Platone: uno sguardo d’insieme
- Franco Ferrari
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- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.06
During the 5th century B.C., skills (technai), including manual ones, assume an exceptional role in Greek society and culture. Plato's attitude appears to be twofold: on the one hand he credits the possessors of these skills as having objective and efficacious knowledge, on the other hand he devalues, probably for ideological and social reasons, manual techniques. On the economic and social level, techniques play a fundamental role in the existence of humans, who, due to their lack of self-sufficiency, are inclined to cooperate by sharing their technical and professional skills. Each individual is part of the city to the extent that he possesses and exercises a technique. Plato also attaches great importance to commercial activity and the use of money. In his last work, the Laws, he seems to devalue the role of techniques within the city: membership of the polis is no longer given by the possession of a technique, but by land property.
- Keywords:
- Plato,
- Skill,
- Social division,
- Politics,
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Chapter Title
Lavoro, tecnica e società in Platone: uno sguardo d’insieme
Authors
Franco Ferrari
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.06
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2024
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Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919