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IF YOU HAD REMAINED SILENT, YOU WOULD HAVE REMAINED A PHILOSOPHER! (BRIEF HISTORY OF A STATEMENT)

Summary/Abstract: In the present text it will be about Boethius and the silences of philosophy regarding Plato. A well written text, therefore silent, helps me in this place, and not only. Briefly, I am considering a disagreement between Plato’s philosophy and that of Boethius regarding the definition and delimitation of the activity of the true philosopher in comparison to the fake philosopher. For Plato, the fake philosopher is the one that, just like the sophist, the poet, the legislator or the logographer puts to sleep his thinking in and by means of writing; the true philosopher practices, on the contrary, his thinking by means of orality. For Boethius, the fake philosopher practices the oral speech in an evanescent manner. The other one, the true philosopher, on the contrary! The issue is that of noticing the disparity between platonic valorization of orality and Boethius’ valorization of silence.

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