A study of badiou's politics of truth
As we know, Plato and Aristotle are the main representatives of the ancient Greek traditional political philosophy. They all thought the mission of politics is to pursue immortality and share the virtues of the gods, it is the intermediary between mortals and gods. However,modern political philosophers believe that this traditional theory of political philosophy has become outdated after the 20th century. They believe philosophy of truth is over. And there is no connection between politics and truth. Because politics belongs to practical philosophy and truth belongs to metaphysics which is dying. Badiou strongly opposed this. He is not only thoroughly criticized the modern political philosophy, but also inherited the truth thought of ancient Greece for his politics in produces of truth. And also, he borrowed Lazarus' anthropology of names to reveal the politics, as a name, is the search for thought and truth. Furthermore, as the finite human reason, the politics is the intermediary force between the finite and the infinite, the ignorance and the wisdom, the mortal and the gods. All of this is just to teach us how to live as a communist for immortality.
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