Fedón, 69c:

¿por qué los βάκχοι son los verdaderos filósofos?

Authors

  • Alberto Bernabe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_16_4

Keywords:

Plato, Phaedo, symbolic language, salvation

Abstract

Abstract: The paper analyses Phaedo, 69c, with the aim of answering two questions: 1) why Socrates quote an Orphic text, specifying that it has a hidden meaning (αἰνίττεσθαι), and 2) how he comes to the conclusion that men called βάκχοι by the Orphics are the true philosophers. The repeated alusion to “risk” (κίνδυνος, κινδυνεÏω) in the dialog is pointed out and the procedure of αἰνίττεσθαι (a sort of codifying poetic text) as a symbolic manner of referring to deep truth is analysed. On the other hand, it is highlighted how the philosopher considers that requirements for salvation in the τελεταί (to be μεμυημένος, κεκαθαÏμένος, τετελεσμένος, βεβακχευμένος) can only be really reached practising philosophy.

 

Keywords: Plato, Phaedo, symbolic language, salvation.

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Published

2015-12-26

How to Cite

Bernabe, A. (2015). Fedón, 69c:: ¿por qué los βάκχοι son los verdaderos filósofos?. Revista Archai, (16), 77. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_16_4