Abstract

Following Plato’s Seventh Letter we justify the philosophy plotted between the phenomenological and hermeneutical exercise under auspices of the ‘compliments for true philosophy’. We will develop that this philosophy is accomplished dialectically according to descendent movement [formed by the whole letter; it is the dialogical and practical aspects – ethics, politics] and ascending movement [described in the tour of the letter; it is the theoretical and intelligible face – metaphysics]. We will grant a special attention to the five moments [name, definition, image, science and ‘the thing itself’] of the ascending route. Finally we will show that the method of the dialectic method is also dialectic and is accomplished in these two movements and in its internal moments which leads to the establishment of an ascending spiral circularity or a virtuous circle. 

Keywords: Plato, Gadamer, Dialectics, Hermeneutics, Seventh Letter.