ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the two seemingly opposing philosophies, Plato's and Heidegger's, are brought together by reading the philosophy of politics in the Republic through the existential analytic lenses of Being and Time and also by using the former in order to explore the philosophico political potential of the latter. This provides a single, penetrating interpretation of how philosophy thinks humans are supposed to respond to the predicament of their original condition. Plato's philosophical anthropology teaches us that human beings, as beings within mundane reality, are clusters of an immortal reasoning or calculating soul, connected to a mortal body. It is, moreover, this connection which seems to give birth to a secondary mortal soul, characterized by the familiar phenomena of emotion and desire. In these lessons, pain finds direct access to the soul, and strikes it without having first been filtered and dampened by its passage through the body.
