The neo-Kantian interpretation of the Platonic theory of ideas and its philosophical "inheritance"

This article puts forward a schematic reconstruction of the neo-Kantian int erpretation of Plato, proposed in the context of the School of Marburg betw een the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The basic tenets of this original interpretation of Plato's thought were drawn up by Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, who attempted to understand Plato's t heory of Ideas according to Kant's doctrine, emphasizing above all the epis temological significance and implications of the relationship between Plato and Kant. In addition, reference to the neo-Kantian School of Marburg make s it possible to characterize many important interpretations of Plato in th e 20th century, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world.