La séparation dans la métaphysique de Platon

The purpose of this book is to examine how Plato distinguishes the sensible from the intelligible in the dialogues. In this perspective, the main elements of the hypothesis of Forms will be analyzed in the context of an aporetic reading of the dialogues. While it is true that a separation between the sensible and the intelligible constitutes a problem for Plato, a detailed reading of the dialogues (Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Symposium, Parmenides, Sophist and Timaeus) will show that such a distinction cannot be described as a separation between two worlds, but rather as the differentiation between two degrees of being, with the sensible objects being ultimately characterized as appearances of the Forms in the Receptacle. Such a characterization will be the result of a long dialectical development, which aims to ensure an ontological status to the sensible as an intermediary between being and non-being. Book's language is French.

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L'enquête au coeur de ce livre examine comment, dans les dialogues, Platon distingue le sensible et l'intelligible. Dans cette optique, les principaux éléments de l'hypothèse des Formes seront analysés dans le cadre d'une lecture aporétique des dialogues. S'il est vrai que pour Platon, une séparation entre les sphères du sensible et de l'intelligible est problématique, une lecture détaillée des dialogues (Phédon, Phèdre, République, Banquet, Parménide, Sophiste et Timée) fera néanmoins apparaître qu'une telle distinction ne doit pas être décrite comme la séparation de deux mondes, mais plutôt comme la différenciation de deux degrés d'être, le sensible étant en définitive caractérisé comme l'apparition des images des Formes dans le Réceptacle. Une telle caractérisation sera le résultat d'un long cheminement dialectique qui aura pour but de garantir un statut ontologique au sensible en tant qu'intermédiaire entre l'être et le non-être. The purpose of this book is to examine how Plato distinguishes the sensible from the intelligible in the dialogues. In this perspective, the main elements of the hypothesis of Forms will be analyzed in the context of an aporetic reading of the dialogues. While it is true that a separation between the sensible and the intelligible constitutes a problem for Plato, a detailed reading of the dialogues (Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Symposium, Parmenides, Sophist and Timaeus) will show that such a distinction cannot be described as a separation between two worlds, but rather as the differentiation between two degrees of being, with the sensible objects being ultimately characterized as appearances of the Forms in the Receptacle. Such a characterization will be the result of a long dialectical development, which aims to ensure an ontological status to the sensible as an intermediary between being and non-being. Luca Pitteloud is professor of ancient philosophy at the Federal University (F.U.) of ABC in São Paulo. He did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Between 2013 and 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Brasília, at the F.U. of Pará in Belém (Amazonia) and at the F.U. of Rio de Janeiro.