Abstract

This paper aims to gain multiple perspectives on Plato’s ontology through the analysis of the Intermediates. Plato refers to them to provide his cosmos with a dynamic structure, in which every part relates to a whole. Nevertheless, this definition could reverse in an opposite: the Intermediate justifies the sensible world to reach the ideal stability, concerning a mixture of being and nothing that gets purification from the becoming by degrees. In this interpretation, the sensibility absorbs life from the Forms, living as their parasite. According to J. N. Findlay, the metaxy state is parasitical because of his logical exemplification of the Ideas, lacking an ontological substance. On the contrary, the void of the half-nothing takes a different role, necessary to establish a symbolic betweenness.