Juan Lovera, by himself (subject to citizen)
María Magdalena ZIEGLER
Original title: Juan Lovera, por sí mismo (de súbdito a ciudadano)
Published in
Keywords: Colonial period, Historical painting, Juan Lovera, Latin America, Republic, Venezuela, Venezuelan painting.
Juan Lovera, Venezuelan painter, born in 1776 and dead in 1841, brings us a life displayed in times of changes in the culture of the Province of Caracas, part of the old Spanish colonial territory, which ended the 18th Century with the promise of a growing prosperity due to the projection of cocoa trading revenues. Lovera saw the end of his life through the uncertain path of a republic which walked unsteadily in its infancy. With this in mind, we will attempt to structure the available data on Juan Lovera, the Colonial artist, the Republican artist, but also as the committed citizen he was. Although the data around his actions and decisions is not abundant, we can take a tour that will throw, repeatedly, elements which will outlined him as an individual aware of his place and possibilities at different stages of his life. This will allow us to value his artistic work in a fairer dimension.
The passions in Plato's The Republic and Ion: possibilities of philosophical inquiry
Jan G. J. TER REEGEN and Ana Alice MENESCAL
Original title: As paixões em A República e Íon de Platão: possibilidades do pensar filosófico
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Ion, Passions, Plato, Republic.
This article analyzes Plato's arguments regarding passions. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary to man, in The Republic something that takes man away from the path of reason, making him lose his strength. That is why the philosopher defends the banishment of poets from his republic. It is worth noting that The Republic is one of the texts that best reflects the aristocratic origin of Plato. The object of analysis proposed here are the passions in two dialogues: a Socratic (Ion) one and another of the philosopher’s maturity (The Republic).
