Presentation

Abstract

Since its beginnings, Western philosophy has pondered the relationship between philosophy and ways of life. Perhaps trying to escape the contingencies of life in common, it did not take long to postulate a place and a time in which the philosophical ideal of coexistence could take shape. From Plato's Republic or, better, from the Laws (where the idea of the ruling philosopher is proposed) to the oppositions between Marxism and utopian socialism, utopian thought has not ceased to unveil Western thought.