Platón en la corte de los periodistas

Abstract

Rarely has philosophy paid much attention to journalism. In this article, we look at the contrast between philosophical reasoning and journalistic reasoning based on a parable that Robert Musil constructed in his meister work The Man without Attributes (1930). Plato comes to edit a newspaper in the twentieth century. After an exceptional welcome, the author of The Republic is thrown out of the editorial office. Here we have a phenomenological analysis of two figures of the collective consciousness: the journalist and the philosopher.