EROS VE POLİS: BİR POLİTİKA FELSEFESİ METNİ OLARAK PLATON'UN ŞÖLENİ

Year 2019, Issue: 28, 221 - 242, 29.12.2019

Mete Ulaş Aksoy

Abstract

Platon’un Şölen’i, Agathon adlı
tragedya yazarının evinde Sokrates başta olmak üzere bir grup Atina’lının aşk
ve güzellik üzerine yaptıkları sohbeti konu alır. Aşk ve güzellik teması
etrafında dönen Şölen’in bir politika felsefesi metni olarak okunabileceği
tezini temel alan makale, bu eserin tematik ve dramatik öğelerinin politik
anlam ve çıkarımlarını inceler. Politika felsefesinin perspektifinden
bakıldığında, Şölen’in politik boyutunun üç katmandan oluştuğu görülmektedir:
aktüel, tematik ve teolojik. Makalenin giriş bölümünde, Şölen’in politik
boyutuna dair genel bir giriş yapıldıktan sonra, aktüel boyut üzerinde durulur.
İkinci bölümde, Şölen’in tematik boyutunun felsefe/polis gerginliği olduğu dile
getirilir. Üçüncü bölümde, Sempozyum’un Atina polisi’nin teolojisine nasıl bir
alternatif getirdiği üzerinde durularak, politik-teoloji meselesi ele alınır.

Keywords

Eros, Platon, Polis, Politika Felsefesi, Sokrates, Şölen

EROS AND POLIS: PLATO’S SYMPOSIUM AS A TEXT OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Plato’s Symposium is a book which narrates a banquet in Agathon’s
house during which Socrates and a group of Athenian talks about love and
beauty. The article, which aims at reading Symposium as a philosophical text
having political connotations, analyses the thematic and dramatic elements of
Symposium to elucidate these connotations. The article claims that looked from
the perspective of political philosophy, Symposium has three political
dimensions: practical, thematic and theological. In the first part, the article
dwells on how Symposium uses the Athenian political affairs as its background.
In the second part, the thematic dimension of Symposium is addressed by
focusing on the tension between philosophy and polis as a central point of
Platonic political philosophy. In the last part, the politico-theological dimension
is taken into consideration by noticing the challenge Symposium poses to the
existing theology of Athenian polis

Keywords

Eros, Plato, Polis, Political Philosophy, Socrates, Symposium

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