
HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Ficino's Translation of Plato
In addition to interpreting Plato, Ficino translated Platonius. The characters who don't sound like mouthpieces for Plato are called "dialectical" I think he would think that it's dialectical in the sense of argumentative,. So when he's looking at, for example, Socrates' refutation of the Trissimachus or a calicles. And I think this has a perturbtic role for Ficino. It largely has to do with helping the readers understand what they should turn away from andWhat they should turn towards in philosophy.
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