Open AccessDualism of Good and Evil in Early Antique Philosophy
Author(s) -
А.А. Ковалев
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
èkonomičeskie i socialʹno-gumanitarnye issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2409-1073
DOI - 10.24151/2409-1073-2021-1-46-54
Subject(s) - antique , dualism , socrates , dialectic , socratic method , philosophy , good and evil , political ponerology , literature , epistemology , classics , history , art , ancient history
The author analyzes the dualism of good and evil in early antique philosophy, primarily in the legacy of the Presocratics. The influence of pre-Socratic ideas about the phenomenon of evil and its dialectical relationship with the good, not just on Socrates and whole high Greek philosophical classics, but also on Stoics, is explored. Using methods of historical and philosophical analysis as well as a comparativist approach, the author concludes that good and evil as cosmogonic categories in ancient Greece and Rome acquired the features of ethical and sociopolitical categories in the high classics.