Keywords
Neoplatonism
Plato
Statesman
Proclus Mito
Neoplatonismo
Platón
Político
Proclo
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Abstract
In the Statesman’s myth (268d8-274d), Plato features two primitive human races: that of the Golden Age, under Cronus reigns, and that which lives at the beginning of the reign of Zeus. In the fifth century AD, Proclus interprets this myth in a non-literal way, establishing a comparison between Timaeus’ demiourgia and that of Cronus. His narrative dissociates two states —placing them at different times—, which, in fact, coexisted in our universe, where Cronus’ realm, considered the supreme dialectic representing the culmination of the intellectual order of the gods, corresponds to the intelligible world; while Zeus’ realm, representative of the operative reason in the physical world, corresponds to the sensible domain.
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