Nimicnicia răului şi diferenţa meontologică. Schiţa unei interpretări meontologice a problemei răului la Platon
Evil’s Faintness and the Meontological Difference. The Outline of a Meontological Interpretation of the Problem of Evil in Plato’s Works

Summary/Abstract: In this essay I studythe problem of the origin of evil and its emergence in the human soul in Plato’sphilosophy from a meontological point of view. As I argue, Plato has an epistemologicalview on evil and links it with the malfunction of a faculty of the soul, namely the“noetic intuition” (νοῦς). For a better grasp of this problem, I analyze the relationbetween nothingness and being, as it is present in Parmenides’ poem and introduce theconcept of “meontological difference”, i.e. the difference between nothingness and it’sontic and ontological hypostases. This concept can shed light on the reasons why, forPlato, the evil is linked to the absence of noetic intuition in two different ways – namelyignorance and madness – both being hypostases of nothingness.

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