Nóema (Oct 2014)

Plato, Heraclitus and Dante on ambiguity. Some notes to Prof. Smith's paper (text in English)

  • Filippo Forcignanò

DOI
https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/4407
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 5-2

Abstract

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The purpose of this note is to discuss some aspects of Prof. Smith's paper about Virgil and the ambiguity. The note is divided into three parts: a) a discussion about the ambiguity of the empirical things in Plato; b) a reconsideration of Heraclitus' fragment 26 DK, in the light of some observation by H.G. Gadamer; c) a short comparison between Virgil's Polydorus and Dante's Pier Delle Vigne about the uncanny nature of their otherworldly transfiguration.

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