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Rickless, Samuel

 
9780521110488: Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521110483 ISBN 13 : 9780521110488
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samuel C. Rickless is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521110483
ISBN 13 
9780521110488
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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