Odyseusz idzie na emeryturÄ™

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Odysseus Is Heading to His Retirement
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Marek Piechowiak
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2024-12
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Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej
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69
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13-31
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2658-0438
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2025-01-07
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The text – drawing inspiration from the tale of the three waves in Plato᾿s Republic – focuses on the final journey of Odysseus, foretold by Homer’s Teiresias in the Odyssey. This journey – undertaken alone with an oar on his shoulder to a land where people know nothing of the sea – represents a stage in the path of moral maturation, essential for achieving a serene old age, concluded with a gentle death among happy people, and a fulfilled life. It symbolizes the path to a confrontation with something beyond ordinary experience. Plato points to the need for a similar journey, as in the Allegory of the Cave, where the most important lessons are learned not from others but through individual effort, by turning away from what we know in everyday life. At the end of his final journey, Odysseus is to face the question of whether the oar he carries, symbolizing the hardships of his journey back from Troy to Ithaca, is in fact a winnowing fan – a farming tool used to separate the grain from the chaff. The final journey is essential to – using Plato’s language – achieving inner harmony, which is the basis of justice, a virtue Odysseus appears not to have fully attained before this journey.
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Plato
the «three waves» in Plato᾿s Republic
Homer
the final journey of Odysseus
prophecy of Teiresias
Platonic justice
spiritual development
truth
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