Defining the limits, and beyond: Kierkegaard and the Platonic use of myth
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The paper aims to reevaluate the Kierkegaardian reception of the Platonic work, a reevaluation based on the question pertinent to the use of the myth. Although Kierkegaard presents several criticisms and reservations to Plato, his considerations about the use of myth in relation to the dialectical limits of thought allowed the Danish philosopher to develop an argumentative technique that served his claim to overcome the limits of understanding imposed by the dialectical reason from post-Kantian philosophy. Based on the concept of metaphor, the paper starts from the Kierkegaardian analysis of the Platonic use of myth. The paper advances to an analysis of the relationship between myth and dialectic in Platonic texts and finally develops a reflection on the way in which Kierkegaard appropriated the Platonic teaching in the development of his own reflections, with emphasis on the presence in works where the authors were pseudonyms.
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