S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it (Dec 2019)
Pensare di più e altrimenti Platone e Aristotele, attraverso Popper. Epistemologie contemporanee e classiche a confronto
Abstract
Thinking more and otherwise about Plato and Aristotle. A comparison between classical and contemporary epistemology The paper contains a particular historical and philosophical interpretation, the hermeneutic possibility of revising the traditional distinction between the founders of Western thought, Plato and Aristotle, which fits within a general thematic horizon, that of the importance of epistemology for knowing and action. The inspiration for this interpretation is offered by Popper, who thought of science as «open knowledge» useful to the «open societies», thus, by the support of the same Popperian reading of the two classical authors, as well as of a careful analysis of the Platonic and Aristotelian texts centered on the theme of the epistemology, it is possible to reinterpret the traditional way of understanding Plato and Aristotle: the first, paradoxically, would be anti-metaphysical, a friend of partial thinking, of contradiction, of the inexhaustibility of scientific research; the second on the contrary, would turn out to be rigid classifier, intuitionist, deductivist tout court.
