Sobre el filósofo hispalense Sebastián Fox Morcillode comentarista (Timeo, Fedón y República) a imitador de Platón

Resum

This aper analyses the presence in the work of the Spanish philosopher Sebastian Fox Morcillo (c.1526-c.1560), from both the content and the stylistic point of view, and, more concretely, as a literary model within the genre of dialogue. The fist part of the paper outlines Plato's influence on Fox Morcillo's thinking and his adherence to onto-psychologism (Menéndez Pelayo 1933) that seeks to harmonize Aristotle's thinking with that of his master. The paper then goes on to analyse the work that Fox Morcillo carried out translating and commenting on three of Plato's most important dialogues: Timaeus, Phaedo and Republic. After studying Fox Morcillo's approach to Plato, we review the exactitude of the opinions that situate him either closer to Ciceronian dialogue orto Platonic dialogue (Gómez 1988, 2000 and Espigares Pinilla 2009). To do so, we use the De iuuentute (1556) where the influence of Platonic and Ciceronian models is presented in the form of a controversy.