Entre sátiros e silenos: ou a dimensão trágica da filosofia no Banquete de Platão

Abstract

This thesis aims at showing how philosophy, though negatively defined in the Symposium, brings with it a feature that is essentially tragic. Although in the athenian tragedy what we call tragic conflict was mainly set from the perspective of the difference between the human sphere and the divine, in Plato, on the contrary, such a conflict is so secularized that we can actually conceive through a philosophical process of education the possibility to overcome the contingencies of fate or whatever transcends human capacities. Otherwise, we may say that the failure of this task inevitably results in tragedy.