Gadamer's Plato

In Der Anfang der Philosophie Hans-Georg Gadamer attributed a constitutive trait of Plato's philosophy to the literary qualities of the dialogues, and claimed that in the transition of Greek philosophy from mythological appreciation to conceptualization (from myths to logos) fictionalization ranked high as a genuine structural element of philosophical speculation. Meanwhile Gadamer's reconstruction of pre-Socratic philosophy in view of its Platonic reception seems to be subordinate to his conviction that Heidegger's revolution was unprecedented in the history of philosophy. © 2007 Akadémiai Kiadó.