Sur le Bien de Numénius. Sur le Bien de Platon. L’enseignement oral de Platon comme occasion de rechercher son pythagorisme dans ses écrits
On the good of Numenius. On the good of Plato. The oral teaching of Plato as an opportunity to search for his Pythagoreanism in his writings

Summary/Abstract: Mauro Bonazzi has shown how Numenius based his theology on his interpretation of Plato’s Timaios and Politeia. However, by giving the title On the Good (Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ) to his own dialogue, Numenius inserts it in the line of the teaching that, according to the tradition, Plato would have orally given on this topic. After focusing briefly on this teaching and its problems, the paper examines how Numenius appropriated it, as it reached him. It will appear that Numenius conceives of the oral tradition as the Pythagorean core of Plato’s teaching, a core that, according to him, its transmitters did not understand properly, and that he claims to find himself in a good interpretation of that which he has direct access to: the writings of the Master.

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