MALE HOMOEROTISM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE SOCRATIC ATHENS. LIBERTY, VIRTUE AND CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

This essay, personal and academic, assumes a philosophical research which falls over the male homoerotism in the context of socratic Athens, where the existence of a sexuality of the philosophy is highlighted, which played an important role in this type of society in which it was imbricated and institutionalized. As a result we will find a markedly masculine moral in rapport with the liberty and the virtue of the subject, who find a superior status, the status of citizen. It shows the homoerotism was part of the properly masculine concept. For the rapprochement we are going toturn to soureces like Plato, Aristotle and Foucualt.