Plato and Heidegger: A Question of DialogueIn a critique of Heidegger that respects his path of thinking, Francisco Gonzalez looks at the ways in which Heidegger engaged with Plato&’s thought over the course of his career and concludes that, owing to intrinsic requirements of Heidegger&’s own philosophy, he missed an opportunity to conduct a real dialogue with Plato that would have been philosophically fruitful for us all. Examining in detail early texts of Heidegger&’s reading of Plato that have only recently come to light, Gonzalez, in parts 1 and 2, shows there to be certain affinities between Heidegger&’s and Plato&’s thought that were obscured in his 1942 essay &“Plato&’s Doctrine of Truth,&” on which scholars have exclusively relied in interpreting what Heidegger had to say about Plato. This more nuanced reading, in turn, helps Gonzalez provide in part 3 an account of Heidegger&’s later writings that highlights the ways in which Heidegger, in repudiating the kind of metaphysics he associated with Plato, took a direction away from dialectic and dialogue that left him unable to pursue those affinities that could have enriched Heidegger&’s own philosophy as well as Plato&’s. &“A genuine dialogue with Plato,&” Gonzalez argues, &“would have forced [Heidegger] to go in certain directions where he did not want to go and could not go without his own thinking undergoing a radical transformation.&” |
Contents
What Is to Be Gained from | 1 |
PART | 7 |
2 | 70 |
PART | 101 |
From the 193132 and 193334 Courses on the Essence | 107 |
The Interpretation of the Theaetetus in the Vom Wesen | 182 |
5 | 225 |
Saying Anon in the Myth of Er | 232 |
PART THREE | 257 |
7 | 293 |
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