Entre o Parmênides e o Sofista de Platão

Abstract

The Platonic theory of ideas has suffered a severe criticism, firstly, by Plato himself. It is more than clear in the dialog Parmenides, where a homonymous character highlights the inevitable apories of a supposed dichotomization of reality and of a proposal of participation as an outlet for the relationship between the two poles created by Platonic metaphysics. Within the scope of the first aporia that comes to the fore in the first part of the Parmenides, is the question of the possibility, or not, of the idea of despicable things such as hair, mud and dirt. This issue bothers us for some motives and requires research. We risk the hypothesis that the second part of the dialog Parmenides and still in the inaugural ontological proposal contained in the Sophist we can perceive an outlet for this aporetic step.