POETRY AS HISTORICAL SOURCE TO THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2178-8189.2010v14n0p121Keywords:
Philosophy of law, Morality, Politics, Society.Abstract
This study aims to demonstrate, from reading the classic poetry of Homero, that its verses, created by the author, form a rich source of topics to Philosophy of Law. So, it is important to detach that the work which was object of this research is a poetry. Homero seems to have it written with the aim of demonstrating that, even in its poetic art, the artist uses the principles of Moral, Ethics, Justice to point that no Society sustains itself in the richness of achieving robbery, treachery, lies. From this universe of themes, the author elaborated the following topics: The Prediction of Tragedy; 2.0 The war between two kingdoms: the first cause; 3.0 First Reading of Moral; Second Reading of Politics; Reading III Poetic Esthetics, Reading IV Symbolic – the balance as an Instrument of Equilibrium; Reading V The Judge; Reading VI About Religious and Society; Reading VII The Poetry of Homero as an educational instrument. This introspective research, developed based on the poetry of Homero, aims to detach topics related to Philosophy of Law.
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