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In this paper, I consider a hermeneutic hypothesis regarding Platonic exegesis in order to show that it presents an original response to the problem posed by the critique of the middle-period dialogues in the so-called late dialogues After commenting on some difficulties of Platonic interpretation (section I) and on the existence of different hermeneutic paradigms for interpreting the dialogues, I present the basanistic hypothesis with the aid of two passages from Plato’s Republic. Next, I analyze some of its advantages (section III) and problems (section IV). In the conclusion (section V), I argue for the efficiency of this innovative approach as a tool for reading and interpreting the Dialogues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to settle a relationship of reciprocal elucidation between two surprising platonic utterances. The first one, in Republic (428 E), is "a city established on principles of nature" (kata physin oikistheisa polis); the second one, in the Statesman (308 D), speaks about a "the true natural art of statecraft" (kata physin alethos ousa politike). The comprehension of the two platonic formulas, in their contexts, allows to verify the coherence of the political thought of Plato in his late works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to develop certain of tyranny in Plato's Republic, Book IX. It takes into account not only the pleasures as principle of the dissolution of "logismos" but also the platonic intention of structuring the man's negative paradigm, its thinking, its affections, its actions -the tyrant-, as the opposite of the philosophical soul in its "celestial paradigm" or the man's paradigm, who uses "logismos", who has autarky and who knows what one's care is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]