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Plato S Forms
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Author : William A. Welton
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Plato S Forms written by William A. Welton and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
The "theory of forms" usually attributed to Plato is one of the most famous of philosophical theories, yet it has engendered such controversy in the literature on Plato that scholars even debate whether or not such a theory exists in his texts. Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the forms in Plato's dialogues. With contributions rooted in both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, the book illustrates the contentious role the forms have played in Platonic scholarship and suggests new approaches to a central problem of Plato studies.
Plato S Forms In Transition
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Author : Samuel C. Rickless
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Plato S Forms In Transition written by Samuel C. Rickless and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
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Plato S Forms Mathematics And Astronomy
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Author : Theokritos Kouremenos
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Plato S Forms Mathematics And Astronomy written by Theokritos Kouremenos and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Plato’s view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics and philosophy as Plato conceived them by proposing that in his view, although it is philosophy that came up with the concept of beings, which he calls forms, and highlighted their importance, first to natural philosophy and then to ethics, the things that do qualify as beings are inchoately revealed by mathematics as the raw materials that must be further processed by philosophy (mathematicians, to use Plato’s simile in the Euthedemus, do not invent the theorems they prove but discover beings and, like hunters who must hand over what they catch to chefs if it is going to turn into something useful, they must hand over their discoveries to philosophers). Even those forms that do not bear names of mathematical objects, such as the famous forms of beauty and goodness, are in fact forms of mathematical objects. The first chapter is an attempt to defend this thesis. The second argues that for Plato philosophy’s crucial task of investigating the exfoliation of the forms into the sensible world, including the sphere of human private and public life, is already foreshadowed in one of its branches, astronomy.
Plato S Forms Mathematics And Astronomy
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Author : Theokritos Kouremenos
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Plato S Forms Mathematics And Astronomy written by Theokritos Kouremenos and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Plato’s view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics and philosophy as Plato conceived them by proposing that in his view, although it is philosophy that came up with the concept of beings, which he calls forms, and highlighted their importance, first to natural philosophy and then to ethics, the things that do qualify as beings are inchoately revealed by mathematics as the raw materials that must be further processed by philosophy (mathematicians, to use Plato’s simile in the Euthedemus, do not invent the theorems they prove but discover beings and, like hunters who must hand over what they catch to chefs if it is going to turn into something useful, they must hand over their discoveries to philosophers). Even those forms that do not bear names of mathematical objects, such as the famous forms of beauty and goodness, are in fact forms of mathematical objects. The first chapter is an attempt to defend this thesis. The second argues that for Plato philosophy’s crucial task of investigating the exfoliation of the forms into the sensible world, including the sphere of human private and public life, is already foreshadowed in one of its branches, astronomy.
Plato S Forms In Transition
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Author : Samuel C. Rickless
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-23
Plato S Forms In Transition written by Samuel C. Rickless and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
There is a mystery at the heart of Plato's Parmenides. In the first part, Parmenides criticizes what is widely regarded as Plato's mature theory of Forms, and in the second, he promises to explain how the Forms can be saved from these criticisms. Ever since the dialogue was written, scholars have struggled to determine how the two parts of the work fit together. Did Plato mean us to abandon, keep or modify the theory of Forms, on the strength of Parmenides' criticisms? Samuel Rickless offers something that has never been done before: a careful reconstruction of every argument in the dialogue. He concludes that Plato's main aim was to argue that the theory of Forms should be modified by allowing that forms can have contrary properties. To grasp this is to solve the mystery of the Parmenides and understand its crucial role in Plato's philosophical development.
Forms And Structure In Plato S Metaphysics
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Author : Anna Marmodoro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Forms And Structure In Plato S Metaphysics written by Anna Marmodoro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. Marmodoro introduces a fresh perspective on these two thinkers' ideas, showing Plato's theory to be indebted to Anaxagoras's, and principally arguing that their core metaphysical concept is overlap: overlap between properties and objects in the world. She contends that Plato initially endorses Anaxagoras's model of constitutional overlap, but subsequently develops his own model of qualitative overlap. Overlap is the crux of our understanding of how for Plato objects participate in Forms, of how objects are related without relations, of the role of Forms as causes, and more. Marmodoro's interpretation shows Plato to be ground-breaking in his understanding of structure as a property, in his explanation of composition, and in his account of metaphysical emergence. Book jacket.
Plato S Self Corrective Development Of The Concepts Of Soul Forms And Immortality In Three Arguments Of The Phaedo
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Author : Martha C. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1999
Plato S Self Corrective Development Of The Concepts Of Soul Forms And Immortality In Three Arguments Of The Phaedo written by Martha C. Beck and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
This study argues both that the proofs are ultimately unconvincing and that Plato was aware of the problems. The Phaedo is shown as a truly dialectical philosophical conversation about the immortality of the soul.
Plato S Arguments For Forms
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Author : Robert William Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
Release Date : 2020-08-30
Plato S Arguments For Forms written by Robert William Jordan and has been published by Cambridge Philological Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-30 with Philosophy categories.
If we are to understand why Plato had a theory of Forms, we must explain, firstly, why he thought it necessary to depart from the ontology of the Socratic dialogues; secondly, why he then posited the existence of entities that have the characteristics that he ascribes to Forms (entities that are 'unmixed', 'unchanging', 'in every way being' and so on); and thirdly, why Plato took this course when other philosophers have not done so (and even he himself and his immediate pupils were later to modify or abandon the theory). In this study, Robert William Jordan discovers an answer to these questions where we might expect to find one - namely in the arguments Plato gives us in favour of the hypothesis that there are Forms. These arguments, on analysis, reveal not just a concern with the nature of knowledge and explanation, but an interest in the analysis of the apparent contradictions that Plato in his middle period thought to be presented to the intellect by the sensible world. These contradictions, he then thought, could not be resolved except by those with knowledge of the Forms.
Plato S Parmenides Reconsidered
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Author : M. Tabak
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-13
Plato S Parmenides Reconsidered written by M. Tabak and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account of Plato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose the absurd nature of the doctrines and method of his philosophical opponents.