CRISTIAN IFTODE
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to emphasize the key methodological role played by the notion of analogy in Plato’s philosophy. My main thesis is that Plato doesn’t operate with two relatively distinct concepts of analogy, one being the mathematical analogy and the other a “participative” and ontological concept of analogy, but that he considers the “participation” not so much the other meaning of analogy as the other “side” of it or rather the necessary condition in order to transfer the mathematical notion of proportion in the field of ontology.