Nihilism of logos. The ‘truly false’ in Plato’s Sophist

Abstract

Nicola Russo's paper is an analysis of the select passages from Plato's Sophist in which, according to the author, there are put and given a specific solution the key philosophical questions of ontology (relation between the existent and non-existent) and epistemology (relation between the true and the false). From these considerations Russo derives his critique of Heidegger's and Nietzsche's assessment of Plato's position. On the other hand, he demonstrates that Plato's propositions still have a fundamental importance for the formation of the agenda of the relation between ontology and nihilism that plays a central role in the ideas of either German thinker as well as in modern philosophy in general.