This paper aims to offer a way of characterizing Plato’s dualism through his use of the intermediate {metaxu). There are three distinct uses of the metaxu : a) as an interval between two limits, b) as a median position between two extremes, and c) as a step towards a distinct and positive pole. The intermediate is that according to which the value of an interval or of an opposition can be justified as such, in order to have a better intelligibility of the realm of becoming.

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pre-proof version. 4 See, for example, 391c4 where greed and servility are called νόσηµα or 439d2 where psychic affections are named νοσήµατα. The following sections give other examples. 5 Rep. 4, 444d13 e2. All translations are taken from the Republic, trans. G.M.A. Grube, revised by C.D.C. Reeve, in Cooper & Hutchinson (1997), unless specified 6 Rep. 4, 444c5-d11.