Rottura o continuità? Il «Platone» di Heidegger dal corso sul Sofista alla «svolta»

Abstract

Break or continuity? Heidegger’s “Plato” from the Sophist course to the “turning point” Heidegger, in the writings of the so-called “turn” [<italic>Kehre</italic>] attributes to Plato a capital role in the history of philosophy, namely that of founder of metaphysics understood as the history of the oblivion of being. Yet, in his course on the <italic>Sophist</italic> (1924 – 25) Heidegger had not yet made such negative judgments. Is this double image of Plato that we can derive from Heideggerian writings the result of a rupture or is there perhaps a continuity? In this contribution I will show the continuity, even if it is accompanied by a rather critical judgment on Plato’s role as the founder of Western metaphysics.