Necessità e contingenza. Note su “μεταξύ” e “ἀρετή” in Platone.

This essay examines the concepts of metaxy (μεταξύ) and aretē (ἀρετή) in Plato, focusing on their role in articulating the relationship between necessity and contingency. Starting from the semantic ambivalence of metaxy as both interval and connection, the analysis highlights its relational and dynamic function in several Platonic dialogues, especially the Symposium. The notion of aretē is then interpreted as the specific tension through which each being tends towards its proper end. From this perspective, contingency does not simply oppose necessity: rather, it becomes the concrete space in which the relation to a principle that cannot be fully possessed or reduced to the finite is disclosed.