El objetivo del presente trabajo será examinar la serie de fragmentos 33-36 del Protréptico a la luz de la posible influencia platónica. La tesis que intentaremos poner a prueba es que, pese a que la definición de ciencia como el conocimiento de las causas y la identificación de estas con los principios de lo real es una concepción esencial del platonismo, el hecho de que encontremos en el Protréptico la influencia de esta concepción no nos permite inferir que Aristóteles se esté refiriendo allí a las Ideas platónicas o a los números ideales defendidos por su maestro ya sea en su obra exotérica o en sus enseñanzas orales. Desde nuestra perspectiva, si bien pareciera ser indudable que, al momento de escribir el Protrético, Aristóteles se nutre de algunas de las principales tesis platónicas que condicionarán su propia manera de entender la realidad, también pareciera se...

“Platonic Echoes in the 33-36 fragments of Aristotle’s Protrepticus”. Theaim of this paper is to examine the series of fragments 33-36 of the Protrepticusunder the light of a possible Platonic influence. Our thesis is that, despite the factthat the definition of science as the knowledge of causes and the identificationof these with the principles of reality is an essential conception of Platonism, thefact that we find in the Protrepticus the influence of this conception does not allowus to infer that Aristotle is referring there to the Platonic Ideas or to the idealnumbers defended by his teacher whether it be in his exoteric work or his oralteachings. From our perspective, even though it seems undeniable that, at thetime when he wrote the Protrepticus, Aristotle nourished from some of the mainPlatonic theses, theses which will determine the way in which he understandsreality, it i...

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“Platonic Echoes in the 33-36 fragments of Aristotle’s Protrepticus”. Theaim of this paper is to examine the series of fragments 33-36 of the Protrepticusunder the light of a possible Platonic influence. Our thesis is that, despite the factthat the definition of science as the knowledge of causes and the identificationof these with the principles of reality is an essential conception of Platonism, thefact that we find in the Protrepticus the influence of this conception does not allowus to infer that Aristotle is referring there to the Platonic Ideas or to the idealnumbers defended by his teacher whether it be in his exoteric work or his oralteachings. From our perspective, even though it seems undeniable that, at thetime when he wrote the Protrepticus, Aristotle nourished from some of the mainPlatonic theses, theses which will determine the way in which he understandsreality, it i...