Fábio FORTES; Humberto Schubert COELHO

Original title: Reflexões sobre o daimon (δαίμων) na Poesia Grega e em Platão

Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

Keywords: Daimon (δαίμων), Deity, Humanity.

The term daimon appears in Greek literature in the Homeric poems, but it receives great prominence in the context of Platonic philosophy, as a manifestation associated with Socratic methodology. In this article, we propose to trace how the term appears in the Greek poetry – especially in Homer’s – and the meanings it maintains in the later philosophical tradition, especially in Plato's dialogues. The objective is to analyse the singularities of meaning in the poetry and in Plato’s philosophy, highlighting, in each case, the meanings associated with a possible divine or human transcendence.