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Print version ISSN 1016-913X

arete vol.20 no.1 Lima  2008

 

ARTÍCULOS

 

La noción de "hybris" en el Critias de Platón

The notion of ‘hybris’ in Plato´s Critias

 

Javier Picón Casas1

1 Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca.

 


RESUMEN

Se justifican tres tesis. Primera, el sentido mítico-religioso tradicional de la justicia como castigo de la ΰβρις quedó desacreditado durante la Guerra del Peloponeso, como bien lo muestra Tucídides. Segunda, en tiempos de Aristóteles, tal sentido ya habría desaparecido en favor de un nuevo paradigma basado en el concepto de τΰχη. Tercera, la obra de Platón constituye uno de los últimos intentos de recuperar ese sentido mítico-religioso tradicional tratando de interpretar la Guerra del Peloponeso a través del mecanismo del castigo de la ΰβρις.

Palabras clave: hybris, tyché, Critias, Platón, Atlantis.

 


ABSTRACT

The following theses are basically justified: (1) the traditional mythical-religious sense of justice as punishment of the ΰβρις was discredited during the Peloponnesian War, as Thucydide shows. (2) In times of Aristotle such a sense had already disappeared in favour of a new paradigm based on the concept of τΰχη. (3) Plato’s work constitutes one of the last attempts to recover the traditional mythical-religious sense trying to interpret the Peloponnesian War through the mechanism of punishment of the ΰβρις.

Key-words: hybris, tyché, Critias, Plato, Atlantis.

 


 

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