Educação, arte e política: reflexões sobre o Sofista, o Político e a República de Platão

Abstract

Na investigation of the notion of truth, of justice and of the art of governance in Plato’s writings allow us to overcome the paradigm of art autonomy as well as the contradictions between thought and action, or in other words, the contractions between the intellectual and artistic activities and the pragmatic and political actions. Art and politics do not have an end in themselves and must be thought within a project that has as its basis and final aim the education of the citizen and the building of a better and fairer life. Thus it is investigated here not just the meaning that art, politics and education have in the works of the Greek philosopher, but it is also inquired the meaning limits that they acquire in contemporary culture, what opens the way to have a new and challenging approach to them. The problem of contemporary art, politics and education does not lie in technical questions: it is a hermeneutic problem that pertains to lhe question of meaning. The investigation of such meaning is the purpose of the present paper.