EL Sócrates estético de Hamann frente a las fuentes clásicas
Hamman’s Aesthetic Socrates in front of Classical Sources
Abstract
The Socratic Memorabilia (1759) reconstruct the figure of Socrates with great interest for a historiography inaugurated by Plato and encouraged by Xenophon. The problematic nature of a life without written work and the philosophical instrumentalization of his exemplary death are exploited by Hamann to appropriate the Socratic êthos (cultivated from the daímon rather than from the logos), which allows defining an aesthetic Socrates who articulates his vital attitude under two premises. On the one hand, beliefs and other material concretions take part in the epistemological understanding of the world and, on the other, it is through radical and critical skepticism towards institutions that it is best to find in Socrates the proto-enlightened one that the most orthodox Enlightenment seeks. If Hamann's Socrates is aesthetic, it is because of his understanding of the aesthetic as a human perceptual structure, prior to the constitution of subjectivity that would dominate senses and passions, according to traditional Aesthetics. Given that the aesthetic dimension appears as the gift of God that brings together the divine and the human in the sentient body, Hamann thus approaches a Christian Socrates, but also a 'teacher of existence' like the character left by Antisthenes and who must complement the Platonic one.
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