ABSTRACT

I wish to show that Heidegger’s contradictory accounts of Plato are not the result of a confusion on Heidegger’s part, but a showcase of his complex relation to Plato. I attempt to prove my point by focusing on Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s allegory of the cave in his 1942 essay “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth”, and his lecture courses during the 30’s. I argue that whereas the former work emphasizes the way in which Plato prefigures a forgetfulness of an original relation between truth and Being, the latter show signs of a positive appropriation of Plato’s work. By the end of this paper I hope to have shown that Heidegger’s reading of Plato cannot be reduced to a critique or condemnation. I argue, rather, that Plato is for Heidegger a transitional thinker who is situated at the centre of a struggle between an originary and a derivative conception of truth.

摘要

我想表明，海德格尔对柏拉图的矛盾叙述并不是海德格尔方面困惑的结果，而是他与柏拉图之间复杂关系的展示。我试图通过集中于海德格尔在1942年的论文《柏拉图的真理学说》中讲解柏拉图的洞穴寓言以及他在30年代的讲课来证明我的观点。我认为，尽管前一部作品强调柏拉图预示了真理与存在之间原始关系的遗忘的方式，而后者则显示出柏拉图作品被积极占用的迹象。到本文结尾，我希望能够证明海德格尔对柏拉图的解读不能沦为批评或谴责。我认为，