Methodological connections between the philosophies of Plato and Hegel: The Hegelian readings of the Platonic dialectic

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore some of the connections between the philosophies of Plato and Hegel, through a reconstruction of Hegel's reading of certain passages in the Platonic corpus. Specifically, this paper gives a reconstruction of his distinctive appropriation- comprehension of ancient dialectic, insisting on the profound methodological and ontological implications of this on speculative thought. Hegel, surprisingly, found in Plato the possibility of considering the difference as a constitutive element of thought, not its opposite. This allows establishing one?s amphibological identity with being.