Plato's Forms in Transition A Reading of the Parmenides

Name: Plato's Forms in Transition A Reading of the Parmenides
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ISBN: 9780521864565

ISBN-10: 0521864569

ISBN-13: 9780521864565

Edition: 2006

Authors: Samuel C. Rickless

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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…

Book details

List price: $95.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The theory of forms



The high theory



The higher theory



The theory criticized



The extent of the forms



Parts and wholes



The Third Man



Forms as thoughts



Paradigmatism



The Greatest Difficulty



Conclusion



The theory modified: methodology



The First Deduction



The Second Deduction



From the Appendix to the Fourth Deduction



The Appendix to the first two Deductions



The Third Deduction



The Fourth Deduction



From the Fifth to the Eighth Deduction



The Fifth Deduction



The Sixth Deduction



The Seventh Deduction



The Eighth Deduction



Conclusion


Conclusion


References


Index of forms discussed


Index of Deductions


Index of passages cited


General index