En este artículo se pretende aportar una lectura de la Carta VII desde la función que desempeña en ella el léxico médico. Dejando al margen la irresoluble cuestión sobre la autoría platónica, la carta muestra conexiones evidentes con temas fundamentales en el llamado último” Platón, principalmente en sus aspectos políticos. En varios pasajes de la Carta VII, la figura del filósofo en tanto educador aparece revestida de aspectos médicos, y la propia situación política es definida como una patología sobre la que hay que actuar de acuerdo con una metodología terapéutica.

“On Corporeality, Sight and Noetic Processes in the Hermetica and Certain Platonic Parallels”. Based on treatises I and XIII of the Corpus Hermeticum (“Poimandres” and “On a Mountain: An Esoteric Discourse Concerning Palingenesis and the Requirement of Silence”) and Nag Hammadi VI (“The Ogdoad and the Ennead”), this article addresses the physical (bodily and sensorial) conditions necessary for Hermetic revelation and how the role played by sensible vision as an opening to a fully noetic dimension has its roots in Plato’s theory of vision. Although what the Hermeticists understand by knowledge is not so much an argumentative and rational learning as a transformative, directly relational and unitive experience (Hermetic gnosis), a clear parallel can be established with the function of the Sun, light and the fiery nature of the eye in key passages of Phaedrus, Republic and...

This article pretends to provide a reading of the Seventh Letter focused on the role that medical terminology plays in it. Leaving aside the unsolvable enigma of Plato’s authorship, the letter shows evident connections with fundamental topics from the “last” Plato, particularly in its political aspects. In many passages of the Seventh Letter, the figure of the philosopher as an educator appears covered with medical aspects, and the political situation is defined as a pathology that we must treat according to a therapeutic methodology.

“On Corporeality, Sight and Noetic Processes in the Hermetica and Certain Platonic Parallels”. Based on treatises I and XIII of the Corpus Hermeticum (“Poimandres” and “On a Mountain: An Esoteric Discourse Concerning Palingenesis and the Requirement of Silence”) and Nag Hammadi VI (“The Ogdoad and the Ennead”), this article addresses the physical (bodily and sensorial) conditions necessary for Hermetic revelation and how the role played by sensible vision as an opening to a fully noetic dimension has its roots in Plato’s theory of vision. Although what the Hermeticists understand by knowledge is not so much an argumentative and rational learning as a transformative, directly relational and unitive experience (Hermetic gnosis), a clear parallel can be established with the function of the Sun, light and the fiery nature of the eye in key passages of Phaedrus, Republic and...

This article pretends to provide a reading of the Seventh Letter focused on the role that medical terminology plays in it. Leaving aside the unsolvable enigma of Plato’s authorship, the letter shows evident connections with fundamental topics from the “last” Plato, particularly in its political aspects. In many passages of the Seventh Letter, the figure of the philosopher as an educator appears covered with medical aspects, and the political situation is defined as a pathology that we must treat according to a therapeutic methodology.

“On Corporeality, Sight and Noetic Processes in the Hermetica and Certain Platonic Parallels”. Based on treatises I and XIII of the Corpus Hermeticum (“Poimandres” and “On a Mountain: An Esoteric Discourse Concerning Palingenesis and the Requirement of Silence”) and Nag Hammadi VI (“The Ogdoad and the Ennead”), this article addresses the physical (bodily and sensorial) conditions necessary for Hermetic revelation and how the role played by sensible vision as an opening to a fully noetic dimension has its roots in Plato’s theory of vision. Although what the Hermeticists understand by knowledge is not so much an argumentative and rational learning as a transformative, directly relational and unitive experience (Hermetic gnosis), a clear parallel can be established with the function of the Sun, light and the fiery nature of the eye in key passages of Phaedrus, Republic and...

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