PABLO SOUTO MAIOR HARDUIN

This is a study on the ontology of Plato’s Sophist, which consists of a direct analysis of the Greek text explained on my translation presented here in parts, commented and annotated. In the first part of this study, I present the semantic problem about the main concept of Platonic ontology at this stage of its development, namely, the concept of εἶναι, τὸ ὄν and οὐσία, which I translate, respectively, as ‘to be real' , ‘realness’ and ‘reality’, to have consequences on my understanding of the type of ontology proposed here. In the second part, I address the new scheme for Platonic ontology as developed in the Sophist, complemented by several comments referring to doctrinal points postulated in other dialogues which are reviewed and fundamentally modified here. This second part is internally divided into two parts: one regarding the Real, τὸ ὄν, and another regarding the Non-Real, τὸ μὴ ὄν, concepts through which the problems concerning Truth and Falsehood are treated, on which it is based the new Platonic ontology on the dichotomy ‘Reality’ vs. ‘Perspective’