Meno ir politikos santykio problema

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explain the single-sidedness of Plato and his opponents from the perspective of the postmodernist camp. Plato and his followers were wrong in thinking that politics can be protected from any major interference by one’s poetic imagination. Postmodernists are wrong in not wanting to admit that politics has many elements which are not poetical. Postmodernists regard politics as similar to a spectacle, a performance, a play with images. From the theoretical point of view this approach has little benefit, and from the practical point of view it is dangerous. If one adheres to such an approach, a clear comprehension of the practical meaning of political events becomes blurred.