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L'eikos in teoria. Aristotele e la Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.
2012
L'articolo analizza la nozione di eikos nella Rhetorica di Aristotele e nella Rhetorica ad Alexandrum con l'obiettivo di mostrarne la fecondità teorica.
Costruzioni eikota. Verità ed efficacia nella cura psicoanalitica.
2011
This article proposes to add the Greek notion of eikos to the debate on the epistemological mandate of psychoanalisis. This term is traditionally translated as likely or probable. The proposed thesis is that such a notion, if adequately understood, can offer an interesting starting point for the understanding of the Freudian concepts of “construction” and “historical truth”.
Dire addio alla verità? Il ruolo dell'eikos nella polemica antisofistica.
2012
This paper deals with the concept of eikos, traditionally translated as “probability” or “likelihood". The aim is to show the complexity and the theoretical worth of this notion and, more specifically, the crucial role it plays in the Platonic attack against Sophists. The starting point is a famous passage of Phaedrus (272d-273a) where Socrates says that the speaker who follows eikos must "say goodbye to the truth”. However, this negative attitude towards eikos is not the only one possible. Indeed, in previous literature, and especially in historiography and rhetoric, eikos does not oppose itself to truth. Instead, despite its fallibility, it is a heuristic device that is extremely useful i…