A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides (Rereading Ancient Philosophy) - Softcover

Sanday, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810134853 ISBN 13: 9780810134850

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato’s “theory of forms” is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle to understanding the theory of forms is the distorting effect of the tacit metaphysical privileging of individual things in our everyday understanding. For Plato, this privileging of things that we can own, produce, exchange, and through which we gain mastery of our surroundings is a significant obstacle to philosophical education. The dialogue’s chief philosophical work, then, is to destabilize this false privileging and, in Parmenides, to provide the initial framework for a newly oriented account of participation. Once we do this, Sanday argues, we more easily can grasp and see the truth of the theory of forms.

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Eric Sanday is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810134853
• ISBN 13: 9780810134850
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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