Il Fedone

The Fedone is a dialogue by Plato that primarily outlines the fundamental lines of his metaphysics, including the theory of Ideas, the theory of Principles, and the doctrine of the Demiurge. Socrates seeks to understand this world scientifically, meaning in its deep causes. Thus, he turns to physicists, shows great interest in Anaxagora, and feels frustrated by the weakness of a purely physical-materialistic viewpoint. The phenomenal plane of the corporeal, the sensory, the empirical does not find its justification within itself; it is not self-sufficient but refers to a second level of being, which from now on can be defined as incorporeal, supersensible, metamaterialistic.