%0 Journal Article %T Notas sobre la configuraci¨®n del mal en Plat¨®n %A Hern¨¢ndez %A Silvestre Manuel %J Revista de Filosof¨ªa %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article studies the aspects from which a £¿concept of evil£¿ in plato can be derived. stress is given to the intellection of good, identified by the trinomial being-order-truth, in overcoming the human contingency by means of episteme, and to evil as non-being. the hypotheses is sustained that evil exists as a counter-argument to the platonic ideal of an auto-sufficient life based on ethics and knowledge. %K plato %K concept of evil %K antithesis between tych¨¦ and techn¨¦. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-11712008000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en