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Aristophanic Themes in Plato’s Republic

2017· article· en· W2903074089 on OpenAlex
Zdravko Planinc

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Political Science Reviewer · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSOCRATESTragedy (event)ComedyPhilosophyLiteratureSocratic methodThe RepublicComicsArgument (complex analysis)EpistemologyAestheticsArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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In Plato’s Philebus, Socrates surprises us when he mentions, as if in passing, “all the tragedy and comedy of life” Of life itself. If the philosophical life is the examined life, one might assume that reflection on the comic aspects of life would have its proper place in philosophy. And if an examined life would be incomplete without a way of expressing itself, one might also assume that the Socratic dialogue is Plato’s unique attempt to develop a fitting literary form. The Symposium ends anticlimactically with Socrates trying to persuade Agathon and Aristophanes, both tired and drunk, that “the same man should know how to write comedy and tragedy.” In other words, that “a skilled tragedian is also a comedian”—a statement that is not a prefiguring of Shakespeare or Beckett, of course, but rather a hint Plato gives us about the nature of his art. It is conventional for scholars to note that these passages are called into question by the agreement reached in the Republic between Adeimantus and Socrates that the same person cannot be a skilled imitator in both tragedy and comedy, but I see no reason why the argument should not run the other way: the Symposiumand Philebus might call arguments in the Republic into question. Adeimantus is a sober fellow, after all, and a bit too precise. It might even have been his habit to leave the theatre before the satyr play came on.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.974
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.097
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it