Atinalıları çağırmak: Platoncu sembol üretim siyaseti üzerine bir inceleme

This study is planned to find an answer to the question of why Plato put down the myths derived from the tradition on paper. With this aim, it analyzes Platonic mythological symbols within the context of Althusserian conceptualization of the concept of interpellation. This study has the claim that Plato applied to mythological symbols as the instruments of interpellation. This study focuses on the onto-epistemological break that Plato launched in light of the world of ideas. The role that mythological symbols play in the process of translation of the world of ideas into the phenomenal world becomes at the center of this thesis. In this way, Plato aims to have an impact on the ways how individuals understand and experience the social reality against the impacts of existing mimetic poetic tradition on the individuals. This thesis points out the indelible ontological difference between the world of ideas and the phenomenal world. Plus, it draws attention to the Platonic attempt about closing this gap by way of epistemological difference coming into being in the form of the hierarchical social division of labor. This study tries to show the importance of epistemological difference in the process of production of the myths and how this process culminates in the reproduction of this difference in the form of socio-political hierarchy. It points out how Plato tries to produce a frozen representation of the tradition and to determine the frame of meaning consumption process by way of writing.