Filosofia e literatura

At first, this article attempts to quickly rebuild the historical relations between philosophy and literature from its Platonic origin, the opposition between the discourse of philosophy (a word created by Plato) and the poetry of speech, rhetoric or what Plato calls of sophistry. Then, it questions the dichotomies established by this separation, such as sensible-intelligible, truth-lie, and finally metaphor and concept. This papers tries to show the importance of sensitive and fictional (or mythical) narratives in the very philosophy of Plato and introduces the question of the relationship between language and the world as a central theme of the unutterable from the Platonic critique of writing. This theme is developed in his different approaches between the hindsight of philosophy and the most prophetic view of literature, to bring the question of fiction back not in terms of lie, but according to Paul Ricoeur, as a mimetic gesture that reconfigures the real and thus allows the imaginative invention of other possibilities of reality, an invention that makes us think. Finally, this paper quickly evokes the philosophy’s "literary forms", under the terms of Gottfried Gabriel, and its significance to a better understanding of the philosophical thought.