Izabela Aquino Bocayuva was graduated (1988), Master (1992) and Doctorate (1999), in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. At Sorbonne, Paris IV, she did a postdoctoral degree in 2012 with the Scholar Barbara Cassin. Her main theme has been language, especially in ancient thinkers: philosophers and pre-Socratics, particularly the sophists. Her current research is to discern in the early days of philosophy in Plato the decisive elements capable of having established, in the face of other discursive modalities, philosophy as an entirely other way of structuring discourse, but also of modulating a way of perceiving reality, but also to behave upon everything and everyone. As an investigative approach, she has been taking and carefully translating certain passages in the Platonic dialogues, where one can see more clearly, since its birth, philosopher’s discourse as a privileged and detached from all other discursive productions. Just to name a few paradigmatic cases: the famous passage called “Second Navigation” in the Phaedo in which Socrate recounts his distancing from pre-Socratics; the dispute between the speeches of Agaton, the tragic poet, and Socrate/Diotim, at the Banquet; the explicitness of the dialectical method in contrast to the sophist character in the Sophist dialogue, the characterization of the philosopher (king) in the Republic, as a type of knowledge entirely different. It is an investigation that aims to understand how and why philosophy, as a discursive modality, is born imposing itself as being “the” standard reference – since supposedly better and “the” correct – of humanity.