L’argomento del terzo uomo (TMA) e Platone
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p98-143Keywords:
Plato, Parmenides, TMA, idea, FormsAbstract
After a historiographical reconstruction of the Third Man Argument (TMA), anciently interpreted against the Platonic doctrine of ideas, the third and fifth aporia of Parmenides as well as the aporia of Republic and that of Timaeus are analyzed, only in the modern era interpreted as four other forms of the TMA. My intent is to show on the contrary that Plato has never really taken into account the TMA due to its dialectical inconsistency and constructs his aporias in order to clarify mainly and at different levels the reason why the idea/form is one and can only be but one, unlike the non-eidetic multiplicity.
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