Image and Comparison: The explanatory power of the eikôn in the Republic

Louis-André Dorion, Université de Montreal

Abstract

My paper will focus on the Republic and Plato’s use of the term eikôn in four passages where he has "images" that clearly have an explanatory virtue (VI 488a-489a: the ship of the Athenian democracy; VII 514a -517a: the allegory of the cave; VII 538C: the image of the orphan; IX 588C-589b: the representation of the soul as a multi-headed beast).

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Image and Comparison: The explanatory power of the eikôn in the Republic

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My paper will focus on the Republic and Plato’s use of the term eikôn in four passages where he has "images" that clearly have an explanatory virtue (VI 488a-489a: the ship of the Athenian democracy; VII 514a -517a: the allegory of the cave; VII 538C: the image of the orphan; IX 588C-589b: the representation of the soul as a multi-headed beast).