reception of platonic philosophy in Erasmus of Rotterdam’s allegories

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.036.e202430112

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Erasmus of Rotterdam (Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) wrote Adage 2201, entitled The Silenes of Alcibiades (in Latin Sileni Alcibiadis), drawn from the Plato’s dialogue Symposium, 215 a – 215 b. The humanist highlights the moment when Alcibiades makes a statement and praises Socrates exalting his wisdom, consecrating Plato’s Philosophy, particularly the one which includes the essentially religious and moral dialogs, less the cosmological and metaphysical ones. His interest in Platonic-Socratic Philosophy, especially by the praise Alcibiades made to Socrates, included a conception of a world “in reverse, because it unfolded in the dialectic between the visible and invisible, the exterior and interior, falsehood and truth.

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Sidnei Francisco Nascimento, Universidade Federal do Maranhão


  Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), São Luís, MA, Brasil. Doutor em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).

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2024-03-05

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Nascimento, S. F. (2024). reception of platonic philosophy in Erasmus of Rotterdam’s allegories . Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 36, e202430112. https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.036.e202430112

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Festschrift in honour of Professor Antonio José Romera Valverde