Abstract
The conceptual core of the book consists in detailed analyses of Plato’s treatment of the deliberative intelligence in the sense of deciding among alternatives. To begin, it takes notice of how Plato ascribes the power of deliberation to human and divine agents alike: in both cases, the deliberative process is strikingly different from the theoretical model of knowledge as pertaining always to the same reality in the same respect.
The book indicates in what way Plato’s interest in choice among the possible (but also counterfactual) alternatives anticipates the Aristotelian distinction between the practical and the theoretical dimension of thought.
