A contribution to the History of Greek dualism

Iranian dualism differs from Greek dualism in that the former introduces an ontological “compactness”, of the two opposite principles, which is absent from the latter. Greek, and chiefly Platonic, dualism operates wiih the conception of a “graduality” of the divine, admitting thereafter the existence of mediating beings such as the Soul (World Soul and human soul). But, while Christian dualism confines itself to the fields of ethics, Greek classical dualism grasps the boundaries of ontology by underlining the differences and even the separation between the two worlds, the divine and the non divine.Thus,even such Plotinian utterances as “the evil as privation” do not delete completely the ontological flavour of the vertical dualism of Greek though