The Platonic analogization of mathematics and ontology according to Gaiser. Some critical remarks

The present discussion, oriented towards the integration of Plato’s literary dialogues and indirect tradition, focuses on two aporias of the interpretation that Konrad Gaiser proposed of the so-called Platonic agrapha dogmata. The first aporia concerns the relationship between “the idea of the good” and to hen (the first of the two fundamental principles of Plato’s intra-academic teaching), which Gaiser identifies without residue. The second aporia regards the figure of the demiurge, whom the German scholar interprets as the dynamic aspect of to hen, subordinate to this. By highlighting the extraordinary carousel of analogizations and analogations that innervates the global Platonic thought, the essay aims to show that: 1) tagathón, the optimum, should not be identified with to hen, but must be understood as the superabundant khaos from which originally the two fundamental principles of the one and the indefinite dyad spring to determine the whole of being; 2) for Plato this “agathurgical” originality can be thematized by human thinking not through an irrefutable dialectical logos, but only through an eikòs mythos/logos capable of protologically and ontologically mastering the analogizing carousel: thus the demiurge reveals himself as the central mythosophical figure of the immense power of the optimum, exaphanic source – ecstantaneously – of the eternal as well as of the temporal/transient.