Abstract EN:

The aim of this work is to give an interpretation of Plato's invention of Philosophy. It has appeared to us that, in order to be consistent, such an interpretation should be elaborated from a non philosophical point of view. A philosophical interpretation of Plato's invention of Philosophy would confront us with problems damaging to its own consistency. Beyond the difficulty of identifying clearly what a philosophical interpretation would be, such an identification would necessarily result in a reduction of the meaning of Plato's Philosophy to our interpretative approach. This reduction could not analyse the novelty of the platonic invention as it would mainly recognize its own philosophical stand in that of Plato's Philosophy. Instead, we have adopted a reductionist and materialist approach wich we have qualified as naive. This seemed to us necessary in order to give interpretations whose meaning can be intended literally. At the same time we have been cautious to give all its relevant importance to the poetic aspect of Plato's Dialogues in the invention of his Philosophy. We have reached the conclusion that Plato's invention of Philosophy is a literary event.