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The Interior Tourist. Travel, Tourism and the Path to Self-Discovery from Platonism to the Pandemic
The Interior Tourist. Travel, Tourism and the Path to Self-Discovery from Platonism to the Pandemic // Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective / Dillon, John M, Zovko, Marie-Élise (ur.).
Berlin: Springer, 2023. 123005, 29
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Naslov
The Interior Tourist. Travel, Tourism and the Path to Self-Discovery
from Platonism to the Pandemic
Autori
Zovko, Marie-Élise
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni
Knjiga
Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective
Urednik/ci
Dillon, John M, Zovko, Marie-Élise
Izdavač
Springer
Grad
Berlin
Godina
2023
Raspon stranica
ISBN
0-000-00000-0
Ključne riječi
Plato, Platonism, Travel, Tourism, Pleasure, Good, Self-Knowledge
Sažetak
Our journeys are never only to the exterior: the interior journey of the traveller has a long tradition, witnessed in travel writings of authors like Montaigne and Unamuno, and in the history of literature as a whole understood as a hodoporos. We ceaselessly pursue things which give us pleasure and fulfil our needs, including the specific kind of enjoyment that travel and tourism afford. The desire to travel is closely tied to an original kind of nostalgia, the desire for self- discovery. Hailing from Heraclitus, Socrates, and the sayings of the Seven Wise Men of Delphi, this desire manifests itself as a fundamental motivating force of travel and tourism. Although we humans tend to “grow our desires big, ” like the tyrant in Plato’s Republic, the pursuit of tourism is not to be equated with mere self- indulgence. The tension between a life of physical enjoyment and the life of the mind, a life of action and a life of contemplation, is decisive for proper understanding of the phenomenon of tourism, and in the history of Western philosophy is perhaps most pronounced in Plato and the philosophy of Platonism. Plato and Plotinus recommend an integrative view of their relationship – while gently steering us away from the tyranny of unbounded pursuit of our every drive and lust. To achieve proper balance in tourism, it is necessary to take account of humans’ natural drives. Properly fostered and cultivated, these can provide the basis upon which our second, higher nature can begin to unfold.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filozofija
