O uso dos jogos como instrumento de formação nas leis de Platão

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to understand and demonstrate the importance of games for the formation and regulation of citizens in the new city shaped by Plato in the work The Laws. To this end, the chosen research method was the analysis and bibliographic review of Books I, II, VII, and VIII of the same work; subsequently, secondary readings were conducted to highlight the relationship between education and the games proposed by Plato in the text. The intention, therefore, was to demonstrate how the teaching of virtues and the control of human excesses and desires can be more easily achieved, from early childhood, through the mediation of diverse games and play. Beyond the virtue of courage in children and young people a virtue that, in isolation, can cause immoderation and other resulting evils games have the potential to develop rules that moderate not only courage but all other virtues, enabling young people to become citizens more docile to the laws.