The City: A Question Of Philosophy

Abstract

The question of the city, from a philosophical perspective, aims to answer a pivotal question: What possible conceptions, central to philosophical thought, can we use to approach the question of the city? To achieve this, we can subdivide the previous question into two: How has philosophy throughout history engaged with the theme of the city? What can philosophy offer today to the question of the city? We can say that there are five issues, in the form of philosophical conceptions, that are central to the question of the city, regardless of the city's history or size. These issues are: institutional organization, the question of space, individualism and uniqueness, ideology and aesthetics, security, and finally, digitalization and ecology. In this paper, I will focus on addressing only two of these issues: institutional organization...