[PDF] Plato And The Foundations Of Metaphysics eBook

Author : Hans Joachim Kramer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1990-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438409648

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This is a book about the relationship of the two traditions of Platonic interpretation -- the indirect and the direct traditions, the written dialogues and the unwritten doctrines. Kramer, who is the foremost proponent of the Tubingen School of interpretation, presents the unwritten doctrines as the crown of Plato's system and the key revealing it. Kramer unfolds the philosophical significance of the unwritten doctrines in their fullness. He demonstrates the hermeneutic fruitfulness of the unwritten doctrines when applied to the dialogues. He shows that the doctrines are a revival of the presocratic theory renovated and brought to a new plane through Socrates. In this way, Plato emerges as the creator of classical metaphysics. In the Third Part, Kramer compares the structure of Platonism, as construed by the Tubingen School, with current philosophical structures such as analytic philosophy, Hegel, phenomenology, and Heidegger. Of the five appendices, the most important presents English translations of the ancient testimonies on the unwritten doctrines. These include the "self-testimonies of Plato." There is also a bibliography on the problem of the unwritten doctrines.

Author : Hans Joachim Krämer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791404331

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This is a book about the relationship of the two traditions of Platonic interpretation -- the indirect and the direct traditions, the written dialogues and the unwritten doctrines. Kramer, who is the foremost proponent of the Tubingen School of interpretation, presents the unwritten doctrines as the crown of Plato's system and the key revealing it. Kramer unfolds the philosophical significance of the unwritten doctrines in their fullness. He demonstrates the hermeneutic fruitfulness of the unwritten doctrines when applied to the dialogues. He shows that the doctrines are a revival of the presocratic theory renovated and brought to a new plane through Socrates. In this way, Plato emerges as the creator of classical metaphysics. In the Third Part, Kramer compares the structure of Platonism, as construed by the Tubingen School, with current philosophical structures such as analytic philosophy, Hegel, phenomenology, and Heidegger. Of the five appendices, the most important presents English translations of the ancient testimonies on the unwritten doctrines. These include the "self-testimonies of Plato." There is also a bibliography on the problem of the unwritten doctrines.

Author : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107132320

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Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438470835

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For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato's use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato's Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato's metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace.

Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136231382

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This volume provides a comprehensive, learned and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato’s thought but with a particular emphasis upon how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting his deepest educational convictions. The author explores the relation of Plato’s metaphysics to the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of Plato’s theory of education and shows how Plato’s basic positions bear directly on the most fundamental questions faced by contemporary education.

Author : Cynthia MacDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405154446

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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals. Mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1999-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438404603

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By offering the first systematic analysis of the nature of the discipline, Metaphysics and Its Task answers why metaphysics always recovers from the attacks it has been subjected to throughout its history. This is done by examining its object, method, aim, and the kind of propositions of which it is composed. In addition to presenting a new conception of metaphysics and an explanation of the resilience of the discipline, the book offers a novel understanding of the nature and ontological status of categories, an analysis of the nature of reductionism and its role in philosophy, and a discussion and criticism of the main views concerning the nature of metaphysics developed in the history of philosophy. In this nonsectarian book Gracia uses sources ranging from Plato and Aquinas, to Collingwood and Strawson. Written in nontechnical language, it is accompanied by detailed bibliographical references.

Author : William Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415627737

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Focussing on two metaphysical doctrines of central importance to Plato's thought - the 'Theory of Forms' and the doctrine of 'Being and Becoming' - he suggests a continuous progress can be traced through Plato's works.

Author : Naly Thaler
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 9780549401247

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The dissertation examines Plato's analysis of the grammar of sentences, and the radical revisions he introduced into his metaphysics in order to support his newly discovered grammatical insights. I begin the dissertation with an analysis of the evidence for a certain erroneous view of sentences, introduced by one of Plato's contemporaries. This view construes sentences as if the terms of which they are composed are mere names, a construal which is based on a denial of the possibility of syntax. I proceed to show that in several of his later dialogues Plato is keen to expose the detrimental results this view has for epistemology and metaphysics, results which he then proceeds to correct by introducing a proper account of syntax. I begin with the Theaetetus. I argue that the third part of the dialogue is concerned with showing that the erroneous view of sentences in question is inimical to any meaningful epistemology. In the process of showing this, the Theaetetus also begins to suggest a connection between syntax and certain key metaphysical notions. In the second chapter I discuss the second part of the Parmenides. I argue that the same view of sentences as the one examined in the Theaetetus is responsible for the paradoxical results of the first and second deductions of the exercise found in the second half of the Parmenides. I argue that the main reason why the deductions reach conclusions which contradict the hypothesis they began from is that the hypothesis itself is construed in accordance with this view of sentences. The third chapter of the dissertation deals with the Sophist. I show that in this dialogue Plato spells out the connection between metaphysics and syntax. I show how the inquiry into the nature of being, which is found in the central part of the dialogue, serves as a basis for the analysis of syntax we find in its final part. Understanding the connection between these two discussions allows us to see that, according to Plato, the surface grammar of sentences veils certain metaphysical facts which only the philosopher has access to.