Socrates & Heidegger
A dissertation
By
Albert Peter Durigon, Esq.
The year 2001 marks the 24th centenary of the death of Socrates in 399 B.C. His teaching, through Plato, reached the philosophers of the Middle and Late Platonic periods, and went beyond them, to -- Heidegger. The instant dissertation first published here to commemorate the 24th centenary of Socrates' death attempts to show that Heidegger was a Platonist, and outlines the senses in which it is believed he may be so considered.
Entitled "Heidegger and the Greeks: Hermeneutical-Philosophical Sketches of Ignorance, Blindness and Not-Being in Heidegger's Beiträge, Plato, Plotinus and Proclus," the dissertation was supervised by John M. Dillon, the Regis Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin, and accepted in 1998 by the School of Classics, Center for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Part I: Declaration, Summary, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents
Part II: Introduction to the Problematic of Heidegger and the Greeks
Part III: Relation to Other Works in the Same Field
Part IV: Hermeneutical-Philosophical Sketch of Socratic Ignorance
Part V: Hermeneutical-Philosophical Sketch of Blindness