Osservare e pensare altrimenti. Un approccio multifocale al pensiero greco antico

The paper aims to reflect on the Multifocal Approach, taken as a hermeneutic paradigm useful in studies concerning classical philosophy. The text is divided into three parts. The first one discusses the conceptual meaning of the "optical" value of this interpretative proposal, which, in the research on ancient Greek thought, is a kind of "perspective reversal". The second, instead, examines some aspect of the Multifocal Approach as an exegetical key to complexity, but always respecting the limits of the humn being. The third, finally, shows the theoretical scope of interdisciplinarity, because it represents one of the distinctive features of the multifocal method, that is also founded on constructive dialogue between different disciplines and open to critical comparison with other interpretative keys. The contribution, therefore, concludes by outling some possible lines of study for future developments of the Multifocal Approach as a "paradigm in fieri".