Plato's Introduction of Forms.

Dancy, R. M.:

ISBN 10: 0521838010 / ISBN 13: 9780521838016

Verlag: Cambridge University Press. 16.09.2004., 2004

Beschreibung

XII, 348 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben und bestoßen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slightly rubbed and scuffed otherwise perfect condition - CHAPTER I -- Introduction -- There are lots of divisions among Plato scholars, but two of the biggest are these. -- Some think that Plato s dialogues proceed from a single view throughout: that there is no question of a development in Plato s thought. Their opposite numbers think that there is development to be seen in the dialogues. The first view is sometimes referred to as "unitarian," and the second could be labeled ' developmental." -- Then again, some scholars see in the dialogues dramatic creations, and so the technique they favor in understanding them is literary analysis. Their opposite numbers see in the dialogues a lot of abstract argumentation, and so their favored technique is that of logical analysis. The first of these two approaches we may call "literary," and the second "analytic." -- This latter opposition would be unreal if either position were understood as exclusive of the other: obviously the dialogues contain both drama and argument. The question of which approach to take is, then, one of emphasis. But there are extremes, and the extremes are in opposition. -- This book is a defense of a developmental view with an analytic emphasis. -- It is confined to the dialogues commonly regarded as early plus the Phaedo and Symposium, and to what in those latter dialogues pertains to a certain metaphysical theory, commonly referred to as the "Theory of Forms." ISBN 9780521838016 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 734 15,2 x 2,4 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Plato's Introduction of Forms.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press. 16.09.2004.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521838010
• ISBN-13: 9780521838016
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Gut
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Philosophie

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Inhaltsangabe

This important book focuses on the arguments of Plato's early and middle dialogues and defends a developmental picture of them.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. M. Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle (1977) and Two Studies in the Early Academy (1991) and editor of Kant and Critique (1993).