Pratiche di verità

(Practices of Truth)

Abstract

The essay proposes an excercise of recapitulation of some originary philosophical structures in which the theoretical commitmens that are made and the internal boundaries that are marked have relevant consequences in terms of the destiny of the truth. What emerges is a deliberately simplified alternative between Platonic and sophistic structures. The hypothesis is that Platonism, a dualistic structure in which the ontological difference runs between intelligibles and sensibles, enshrines a theoretical resource that cannot be renounced if one wishes to preserve a specific notion of truth: namely, the one that is in turn capable of giving meaning to practices of truth such as the labor of the concept.