"L'esquis et l'essentiel" : За простата геометрия на метода в една платоническа традиция

Abstract

The essence of the analysis is Leibniz’s Discours touchant la méthode de la certitude et de l’art d’inventer pour finir les disputes et pour faire en peu de temps de grands progres from 1688. In this short discourse Leibniz makes intelligible the universal principle of the arrangement of knowledge of whole being, which has two simple criteria: the exquisite and the essential. On the other hand, Discours de metaphysique from 1686 is based on Plato’s “remarkable passage” from Phaedo (97b-99c) in support of theory of the mind, which needs to search for the best. The passages from Nietzsche’s “selected reality” and Plato’s “magic” confirm another platonic tradition according to which the anamnesis has its own “simple geometry” in finding perfection.