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| Author | : William A. Welton |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780739105146 |
Download Plato's Forms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : R. M. Dancy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2004-09-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139456237 |
Download Plato's Introduction of Forms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains the Theory of Forms of the Phaedo and Symposium as an outgrowth of the quest for definitions canvassed in the Socratic dialogues, by constructing a Theory of Definition for the Socratic dialogues based on the refutations of definitions in those dialogues, and showing how that theory is mirrored in the Theory of Forms. His discussion, notable for both its clarity and its meticulous scholarship, ranges in detail over a number of Plato's early and middle dialogues, and will be of interest to readers in Plato studies and in ancient philosophy more generally.
| Author | : Samuel C. Rickless |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2006-11-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139462784 |
Download Plato's Forms in Transition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Norman Gulley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136200592 |
Download Plato's Theory of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1962, this book provides a systematic account of the development of Plato’s theory of knowledge. Beginning with a consideration of the Socratic and other influences which determined the form in which the problem of knowledge first presented itself to Plato, the author then works through the dialogues from the Meno to the Laws and examines in detail Plato’s progressive attempts to solve the problem.
| Author | : Reginald E. Allen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2012-09-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0415626307 |
Download Plato's Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Forms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plato’s Euthyphrois important because it gives an excellent example of Socratic dialogue in operation and of the connection of that dialectic with Plato’s earlier theory of Forms. Professor Allen’s edition of the dialogue provides a translation with interspersed commentary, aimed both at helping the reader who does not have Greek and also elucidating the discussion of the earlier Theory of Forms which follows. The author argues that there is a theory of Forms in the Euthyphroand in other early Platonic dialogues and that this theory is the foundation of Socratic dialogue. However, he maintains that the theory in the early dialogues is a realist theory of universals and this theory is not to be identified with the theory of Forms found in the Phaedo, Republic, and other middle dialogues, since it differs on the issues of ontological status.
| Author | : Theokritos Kouremenos |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-05-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110601486 |
Download Plato’s forms, mathematics and astronomy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Vasilis Politis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2021-07-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108833667 |
Download Plato's Essentialism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Vasilis Politis argues that Plato's Forms are essences, not merely things that have an essence. Politis shows that understanding Plato's theory of Forms as a theory of essence presents a serious challenge to contemporary philosophers who regard essentialism as little more than an optional item on the philosophical menu. This approach, he suggests, also constitutes a sharp critique of those who view Aristotelian essentialism as the only sensible position: Plato's essentialism, Politis demonstrates, is a well-argued, rigorous, and coherent theory, and a viable competitor to that of Aristotle. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection between philosophy and the history of philosophy.
| Author | : Gail Fine |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0198235496 |
Download On Ideas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book on Aristotle's important but neglected essay Peri ideon, 'On Ideas', to be published in English. Gail Fine explores the philosophical merits of Aristotle's criticisms of Plato, and relates their views to current debates about universals, properties, meaning, and knowledge. The full, annotated text of Peri ideon is included, with translation.
| Author | : Gail Fine |
| Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
| Total Pages | : 793 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190639733 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues, all serving several functions at once: they survey the current academic landscape; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato differs in two main ways from the first edition. First, six leading scholars of ancient philosophy have contributed entirely new chapters: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno; Luca Castagnoli on the Phaedo; Susan Sauvé Meyer on the Laws; and David Sedley on Plato's theology. This new edition therefore covers both dialogues and topics in more depth than the first edition did. Secondly, most of the original chapters have been revised and updated, some in small, others in large, ways.
| Author | : Gail Fine |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780199245581 |
Download Plato on Knowledge and Forms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plato on Knowledge and Forms brings together a set of connected essays by Gail Fine, in her main area of research since the late 1970s: Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. She discusses central issues in Plato's metaphysics and epistemology, issues concerning the nature and extent of knowledge, and its relation to perception, sensibles, and forms; and issues concerning the nature of forms, such as whether they are universals or particulars, separate or immanent, and whether they are causes. A specially written introduction draws together the themes of the volume, which will reward the attention of anyone interested in Plato or in ancient metaphysics and epistemology.
