Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)

In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive in the eyes of ordinary people: he walked about naked (soul-naked) among the Greeks, uncov...

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Main Author: Gustavo Luna
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2003-10-01
Series:Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía
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Online Access:http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/theoria/article/view/311
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description In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive in the eyes of ordinary people: he walked about naked (soul-naked) among the Greeks, uncovering all prejudice, just as the Divine Marquis of Sade would in an apparently very different field. Indeed, both thinkers do the same thing: they expose a real and deeply hidden tendency in men: not the desire of knowledge, but the desire of not knowing anything about their own souls. They expose what people want to keep in the dark: the certitude or the falsehood of their judgements, the limits and the pursuits of our thought. But no one can go over the limit and keep on living.
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spelling doaj.art-bcfae0ab5a064b929d88f24e0728fc5f2023-02-02T17:58:51ZspaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía1665-64152003-10-0114-1510.22201/ffyl.16656415p.2003.14-15.311Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)Gustavo LunaIn 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive in the eyes of ordinary people: he walked about naked (soul-naked) among the Greeks, uncovering all prejudice, just as the Divine Marquis of Sade would in an apparently very different field. Indeed, both thinkers do the same thing: they expose a real and deeply hidden tendency in men: not the desire of knowledge, but the desire of not knowing anything about their own souls. They expose what people want to keep in the dark: the certitude or the falsehood of their judgements, the limits and the pursuits of our thought. But no one can go over the limit and keep on living.http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/theoria/article/view/311Vulnerabilidad del sujetoLa verdadVulnerabilidadVerdad
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Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía
Vulnerabilidad del sujeto
La verdad
Vulnerabilidad
Verdad
title Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
title_full Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
title_fullStr Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
title_full_unstemmed Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
title_short Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)
title_sort socrates y sade una perversion o el escandalo de la filosofia
topic Vulnerabilidad del sujeto
La verdad
Vulnerabilidad
Verdad
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