El concepto de justicia en la configuración del sujeto antiguo

Abstract

What is done here is a research with elements of genealogy in five chapters that account for the analysis of the philosophical concept of “justice"; and its relation to truth in the formation of some aspects of Greek subjectivity. It requires the approach to the roots of its emergence in ancient Greece, so we proceed to give it a context and trace its development. This has made it possible to understand the emergence of this concept, its transmission and its deployment as a fertile force from which possibilities for life, culture and the State emerge. Since the concept discussed here is conceived as a quality of the soul; as a true virtue that always tends towards the idea of good, for which reason it is possible to enjoy a good State, as Plato put it. Justice then, understood as the guiding element of man's action and the realization of a good life on earth, in consequence with the realization of the divine mandate that contains truth; it is unveiled in antiquity by the poet, who has the duty to enlighten with true knowledge, since he has already traveled that long and arduous road that implies unveiling the message of the muses that promulgate truth since they are the only ones that know “what was, what is, what will be"; (Detienne, 2004, p. 62). And under which, formation and culture tend to follow, that is, formation must look to the past in the present in order to potentiate the future.