Not-being and the strategy of the Eleatic stranger: deduction or repression?

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Francesco Fronterotta
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 143-162 File size 600 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2015-001011
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In this paper the Author examines the problem of not-being in Plato’s Sophist. "Notbeing" is closely connected in Plato’s Sophist with the notion of the "other" or "difference" since not-being can be understood as "not-being something", that is, as "different from" something. In fact, what "is not" beautiful, for example, is not only what is "contrary" to beautiful but also what is "different" from beautiful. Thus, the "other" introduces and explains the notion of a relative "not-being" as "different" from what it is. The Author puts this idea at the center of the analysis in an attempt to verify its coherence and legitimacy and establish some connections with two contemporary thinkers, Meinong and Frege, who clearly depend on Plato’s reflections on this point.

Keywords: Plato, Parmenides, sophist, not-being, difference, dialectic

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Francesco Fronterotta, Il non essere e la strategia dello straniero di Elea: deduzione o rimozione? in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2015, pp 143-162, DOI: 10.3280/SF2015-001011