The Motif of “Secrecy” of Philosophical Message in the VII Letter of Plato. Mystical Experience of the Truth as an Element of Philosophical Cognition

Abstract

The paper deals with the topic of secrecy of the philosophical message in the VII Letter of Plato. The theme suggests spiritual contexts close to the Greek Mysteries, because the secrecy was one of the key elements of Greek Mysteries, especially Eleusinian and Orphic ones, which played a special role in the formation of Greek philosophy.