Abstract

FIERRO, María Angélica. “A-topology” in Phaedrus by Plato: the hyperouránios tópos and the átopos Philosopher. Nova tellus [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.1, pp.65-93. ISSN 0185-3058.

Here I intend to explain how Socratesʼ and the philosopherʼs atopía in the Phaedrus can be explained as a fundamental “desplacement” of him in relation to the hyperouránios tópos as his fundamental reference point. On one hand, the hyperouránios tópos is nowhere insofar as “outside the universe” there was nothing at all according to the astronomical conceptions of the time. On the other hand, it relates to a an ultimate sense which can never be completely disclosed. Thus the philosopher, through his search for the truth, is always “out of place” regarding not only the discourses of the status quo but also of his own speeches for giving account of reality.

Keywords : A-topía; Hyperouránios; Phaedrus; Plato; Socrates.

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