Norme și reguli sociale în antichitatea greacă

Abstract

Since ancient times, the social coexistence of people has been regulated by norms and rules, the Code of Laws of Hammurabi, the Egyptian Book of the Dead or the Biblical Decalogue being eloquent examples in this regard. This problem, of norms and rules of social coexistence, could not escape the attention of philosophers, who devoted vast approaches to it, the most famous examples being: Plato’s Republic or Rousseau’s Social Contract. But it is not only within the great ethical conceptions constructed by various philosophers that this problem arises, but it is also present in the concerns of some thinkers who have touched tangentially on this issue within their philosophical concerns. This paper presents several approaches to social norms and rules within the philosophical conceptions of Greek antiquity that did not treat the problem in the form of a unitary ethical system: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democritus, and Socrates.