'Diaskopèin' e 'mythologhèin': Platone il tempo e oggetto di ciò che è un bel rischio credere

Recent reflection on uncertainty overlooks and even misunderstands Plato’s thought. Faced with a complex world, he definitely admits the presence of 'kairòs', whose literary and iconographic images are already established. He forces the arts ('tèchnai') to grasp it by calculating not only external measures of objects, but also those «pertaining to the essence of generation» ('Pol'. 283d). Seizing this ‘right moment’ is even more complicated in the interpersonal relationships and goes back to the care ('epimèleia') of oneself and of others. According to the intense words of Socrates before his death in the 'Phaedo' (61d, 114d), reasoning together ('diaskopèin') is not enough: also an ability is always requested from us to tell our own story (mythologhèin) and to welcome those of others as well. Only this way can we run the risk, time by time, of believing the truth, feeling the good, judging and acting the right.