Podríamos decir que es descabellado descartar la posibilidad de que Platón sabía lo que hacía al presentársenos esotéricamente como un contador de mitos. Contaba con el precedente de Homero y le discutió, pese a admirarlo, la cuestión capital que en la República se resuelve en dos partes:
la idea del bien, sobre la que se guarda un silencio representativo, y el mito de Er. ¿Se presenta Heidegger al lector como un contador de mitos? ¿Cuál es su propósito? ¿Quién está en condiciones de responder a quién?
We could say that it is unreasonable to rule out the possibility that Plato knew what he was doing in presenting himself esoterically as a myth teller. He counted on the precedent of Homer but, despite his admiration, he disagreed with him about the capital issue which, in the Republic, is resolved in two parts: the idea of good, on which a representative silence is kept, and the myth of Er. Did Heidegger present himself to the reader as a myth teller? What is his purpose? Who is able to respond to whom?
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