«A Man not a Man …»: Aeneid VI and the Hermeneutics of Ambiguity (text in English)

Authors

  • Paul Christopher Smith The University of Massachusetts Lowell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/4340

Keywords:

Language, Ambiguity, Error, Deception, Truth/Lie, Being/Not-Being

Abstract

Using Virgil’s Aeneid VI as an example, this paper explores what might become of language and “truth” if contrary to Plato’s proposed course of education for the guardians of the state one moves, not up from sense perceptions to univocal, intelligible being, but down to the ambiguous realm of sleep, dreams and death.

 

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Published

2014-10-11

Issue

No. 5-2 (2014): Ricerche

Section

Researches - Phenomenology and hermeneutics

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