Plato and Platonism : Plato's conception of appearance and reality in ontology, epistemology, and ethics, and its modern echoes
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Plato and Platonism : Plato's conception of appearance and reality in ontology, epistemology, and ethics, and its modern echoes
Blackwell Publishers, 2000
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [329]-337
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Plato and Platonism reviews the natures and limits of Platonic interpretation. Students, academics and researchers will find that Moravcsik's careful and rigorous analysis offers an understanding of what Platonism in our times would have been like. The book leads us to an appreciation of genuine Platonism, rarely discussed today.
Table of Contents
Preface. Introduction.
Part I: How does Reality Account for Appearances? Plato's Notions of the Fundamental, the Good and the Intelligible:.
1. Insight and Activity.
2. The Forms: Plato's Discovery.
3. What We Are and What We Should Be.
Part II: The Many-Splendored Nature of the Forms, and the Ontology of Order:.
4. The Parmenides: Forms and Participation Reconsidered.
5. The Eleatic-proof theory of Forms of the Sophist.
6. The Ontology of Order Reconsidered: The Divisions and the Philebus.
Part III: Platonism, Ancient and Modern:.
7. Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics and General Ontology.
8. Platonistic Ethics: Effecting Reorientation and Sustaining Ideals.
Bibliography.
Index.
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