PLATÃO ”“ O BANQUETE

Abstract

Should we consider Plato identical to Platonism? Was he not, more than a philosopher, a writer, a dramaturge of ideas? The Symposium is strategical for that question, here we play with more than a rereading of one text, but to examine if Platonism, basis for Christianism, betrays basic impulses of his work, with a partial and erroneous reading, in disagree with the strategical structure of the text. What Plato really thought does not coincide with what anyone of his figures says ”’ but there is a very strong tendency to confound Socrates with Plato, and the literary character Socrates with the historical figure of Socrates ”’ and it matters less than what his text evocate through their literary organization. Until where should we go with the assertive of Alcibiades that Socrates was basically ironic, never saying what he really was thinking, preferring to say exactly the contrary of what was going through his mind?