Le Bien de Platon et le problème de la transcendance du Principe. Encore une fois l’ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας de Platon
The good of Plato and the problem of the transcendence of the Principle. Once again Plato's ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας

Summary/Abstract: The article again treats the question of whether «the Idea of the Good is a Reality in the Universe, or beyond it. Is it immanent or transcendent?» (Rufus Jones, 1863 1948). Plato scholars such as Matthias Baltes (1940 2003) and Luc Brisson have defended the thesis that Plato’s Idea of the Good is, on the one hand, beyond being (epekeina tês ousias) in dignity and power, but, on the other, is nevertheless not transcendent over being. The article delivers first (I) the most important arguments for the thesis of Baltes and Brisson. Then (II), it gives two counterarguments against the thesis. Third (III), it concludes with some general questions concerning the deflationist interpretation of Plato’s Republic 509b9 10, and defends again the transcendence of the Idea of the Good.

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