| This thesis examines the relationship between Philosophy and tyranny within platonic and Hegelian philosophy as it relates to the idea of a rational, universal State. Through a close exegetical reading of Alcibiades I, the Gorgias, the Symposium and the Republic this paper examines the relationship between the philosopher and the tyrant within classical philosophy. This classical view is then contrasted by Alexandre Kojeve's interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit found in his Introduction to the Reading of Hegel. While Kojeve's interpretation represents a distortion of Hegel's intent, its radical formulation presents most clearly the distinctly modern attitude towards philosophy and tyranny. By exploring Plato's and Kojeve-Hegel's examination of freedom and justice, philosophy and tyranny, in the body politic this paper develops and understanding of globalization from the standpoint of ideology and technology in an attempt to answer the foremost of political and philosophical questions: what is to be done?... |
