Consistent with a Platonic hermeneutic program whose main premises I outlined in a previous essay, I will now present a first application of this unified vision. Specifically, instead of “translating” (or, borrowing a term from Auguste Diés, “transposing”) the doctrine of Plato’s dialogues into the terms of other doctrines, I propose an anti-reductionist hermeneutics that…
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