Plato's Ion
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Platon wird 428 v. Chr. in Athen geboren. Als Sohn einer Aristokratenfamilie erhält er eine umfangreiche Ausbildung und wird im Alter von 20 Jahren Schüler des Sokrates. Nach dessen Tod beschließt Platon, sich der Politik vollständig fernzuhalten und begibt sich auf Reisen. Im Alter von ungefähr 40 Jahren gründet er zurück in Athen die berühmte Akademie. In den folgenden Jahren entstehen die bedeutenden Dialoge, wie auch die Konzeption des „Philosophenherrschers“ in Der Staat. Die Philosophie verdankt Platon ihren anhaltenden Ruhm als jene Form des Denkens und des methodischen Fragens, dem es in der Theorie um die Erkenntnis des Wahren und in der Praxis um die Bestimmung des Guten geht, d.h. um die Anleitung zum richtigen und ethisch begründeten Handeln. Ziel ist immer, auf dem Weg der rationalen Argumentation zu gesichertem Wissen zu gelangen, das unabhängig von Vorkenntnissen jedem zugänglich wird, der sich auf die Methode des sokratischen Fragens einläßt.Nach weiteren Reisen und dem fehlgeschlagenen Versuch, seine staatstheoretischen Überlegungen zusammen mit dem Tyrannen von Syrakus zu verwirklichen, kehrt Platon entgültig nach Athen zurück, wo er im Alter von 80 Jahren stirbt.
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Platon
Plato’s Ion
Translated by Albert A. Anderson
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Plato’s Ion
Ἴων
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Plato’s Ion
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Socrates, Ion
[530] Socrates: Hello, Ion. Are you coming from your home in Ephesus?
Ion: No, Socrates. I’m coming from Epidaurus, where I attended the festival of Asclepius.
Socrates: Really! Do the Epidaurians also have a contest for rhapsodists ¹ in honor of the god? ²
Ion: Yes, as well as many other kinds of performance.
Socrates: And you were one of the competitors? How did you do?
Ion: We won first prize, Socrates.
Socrates: Well done; now we can also win at the Panathenaea. ³
Ion: We can, if the gods are willing.
Socrates: I have often envied your profession as a rhapsodist, Ion. You get to wear fancy clothes and look as beautiful as you can. And you interpret the best poets, especially Homer, the most divine of all. You not only know his words—you understand his mind. That’s enviable. Surely no one can be a good interpreter who fails to understand what the poet means. So you, the rhapsodist, have the task to communicate the mind of the poet to the audience.