Plato's Introduction of Forms

Name: Plato's Introduction of Forms
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ISBN: 9780521838016

ISBN-10: 0521838010

ISBN-13: 9780521838016

Edition: 2004

Authors: R. M. Dancy

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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…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.540



Preface


Note on the text


Abbreviations



Introduction



A Socratic Theory of Definition



Socrates' demand for definitions



Fixing the topic



Socrates' requirements: substitutivity



Socrates' requirements: paradigms



Socrates' requirements: explanations



Socrates' requirements: explaining by paradigms



Explaining: presence, participation; the Lysis



Between Definitions and Forms



The Meno



Platonic Forms



Phaedo 64-66: enter the forms



Phaedo 72-78: the forms and recollection



The beautiful in the Symposium



Phaedo 95a-107b: forms and causes



Conclusion


References


Index of passages cited


General index