Nomos e polis fra l'Antigone e il Critone
Subtitle: momenti del tragico nel mondo antico
By: Maddalena Mancini
Series: Philosophica -- 131
Publisher: Edizioni ETS
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pisa
Language: ita
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9788846739759
Subjects: Political science; Philosophy; History; Tragedy
Description: Nomos, the law, and Polis, the city, are central concepts to Sophocles' Antigone and Plato's Crito. Both works address the problem of the authority of the law and the freedom of the individual. Maddalena Mancini takes an approach that is both historical and philosophical in her examination of theoretical and conceptual nodes in both works, including the complex relationship between the individual and the law, the birth of the moral conscience, the universality of human rights, the pursuit of philosophy as a fundamental basis for humans' hope for a better future, and the consciousness of the tragedy of existence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189).