TY - JOUR ID - 53803 TI - TEXTUALISTIC INVESTIGATION OF PLATO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Khalekgi, Ahmad AU - Paran, Davoud AD - Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Tehran, Iran AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department, Allameh Tabatabaii University, Iran Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 893 EP - 912 KW - ideas KW - Justice KW - Plato KW - political philosophy KW - Utopia DO - 10.22059/jpq.2014.53803 N2 - Plato, as the founder of “political Philosophy”, is the best example of a theorist whoattempt to understand the social disorders and to propose a solution for it. For Plato,to put Socrates on trial is a symptom of Athena’s “crisis” which should be examinedand a solution should be presented. All of Plato’s attempts, especially in “TheRepublic” are to get rid of this crisis. But, Plato’ solution, as if it has happened a“miracle” in modern age, has been regarded as distinctive from all modern agethinkers’ solution and these thinkers have intended to reject Plato’ solution byascribing it to the old age, age of ideals. In this treatise we want to achieve a “realhistorical understanding” of Plato’s political philosophy by sympathy with thephilosopher, that is, by approaching the method of understanding the text by textitself and avoiding from the two methods of “progressism” and “historicism” inunderstanding the political texts and methods which have been founded uponmiracle based on the prejudice of the modern age. This method of investigation,especially in explaining Plato’s “ideas” is basic in regarding to our intendedpurpose. UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_53803.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_53803_df91c4d2d5e45a2c0db724b25d5093cd.pdf ER -