Plato or Platonism. A topic in descending dialectic
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Plato, Platonism, Hegel, dialectical ontology, network ontology.Abstract
Dialectical ontology can be reconstructed following two complementary paths1. The ascending path (anabasis) begins with the influence of Plato’s ontology through Nicholas of Cusa on Bertalanffy2, the founder of systems theory. Converging with Darwinism, this theoretical approach will give rise to the more refined version of the complex adaptive systems theory, and will ultimately spread out through the different sciences, converting from a regional ontology (ontology of biology) into a major part of a new general ontology (theory of being as being, that obviously should not be understood here as a merely formal ontology3). The descending path (katabasis), the eminently philosophical one, also has two branches which ultimately converge: on the one hand it leads from Plato’s theory of ideas to German idealism and seeks to establish itself by immanent critique of Hegel’s system (a topic that has for a long time been my main occupation4); the second branch of this descending dialectic is the subject of this essay, namely, the investigation of the decisive role of self-critical development of Plato’s philosophy in the project of a deflationary relational ontology or, simply, a network ontology.
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