2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of Plato's Later Political Thought and its influences on Aristotle
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16520013
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Joetsu University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJISAWA Ikuo Joetsu University of Education, Faculty of Teacher Education, Professor, 学校教育学部, 教授 (70002376)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAITO Kazunari Kagawa University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (20153794)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | art of politics / paradigm / constitution / chremastike |
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| Research Abstract |
Headinvestigator Fujisawa studied first Plato's early political thought based on Apology of Socrates, Crito, Gorgias and Seventh Letter. Then I, passing Plato's great work on politics Republic, engaged in research on Plato's later philosophy of politics mainly based on the dialogue Politicus. I think I could find out that through the early stage of Plato's political philosophy to later philosophy the idea of philosopher-king remained living. But he could not help resigning to apply the idea in real politics, instead relying on the rule of laws.
Investigator Saito throws light on the difference of the explanation on constitution in Book III and IV of Politica. In Book III Aristotle follows Plato's classification of constitution in Politicos, and Laws. But in Book IV he insists that there are many sub-types of each constitution and this multiplicity depends on the variety of the extent of the socio-economic groups that take part in the sovereign power. From the above analysis we can view an outline of Aristotle's acceptance and criticism of Plato's theory of constitution. Aristotle suggested that the most suitable constitution for almost all real cities is a mixed constitution, while Plato already had brought up a mixed constitution in Laws. Aristotle accepted a guideline of research from Plato and studied from his own point of view.,
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