https://doi.org/10.31261/fp.21038
The aim of the article is to present a preliminary interpretation of Plato’s thought, based on the text of dialogues which outlines the guidelines allowing for making references to some tendencies of interpretation. The author claims that it is not about looking for a written or oral transmission of a ready made system but a dynamic interpretation of Plato’s thought as directed and problematic. In his main trend, through considerations on the most important issues the world raises in front of a human being, Plato’s philosophy methodologically aims at their ultimate solutions. Its main aim is to dialectically search the truth, set out from the beginning by a recognition of an intelligible fullness of the being uniting the ontological level with an epistemological and practical-religious one. The author reads Plato’s philosophy as esoteric in a sense that the fulfillment, i.e. a recognition of an intelligible whole of the world, takes place beyond discourse, in a mental part of the soul, whereas discourse leads to it or reports on it. Finally, to understand Plato means the effort of philosophizing, starting with a more or less clear experience of the fullness of the truth and being, the recognition of which is directed at from the very moment.
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Vol. 26 (2008)
Published: 2008-12-31
10.31261/fp
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