Plato's introduction of forms
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Plato's introduction of forms
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-335) and indexes
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Description
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 both its clarity and its meticulous scholarship, ranges in detail over a number of Plato's early and middle dialogues, and will be of interest to readers in Plato studies and in ancient philosophy more generally.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Note on the text
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. A Socratic Theory of Definition: 2. Socrates' demand for definitions
- 3. Fixing the topic
- 4. Socrates' requirements: substitutivity
- 5. Socrates' requirements: paradigms
- 6. Socrates' requirements: explanations
- 7. Socrates' requirements: explaining by paradigms
- 8. Explaining: presence, participation
- the Lysis
- Part II. Between Definitions and Forms: 9. The Meno
- Part III. Platonic Forms: 10. Phaedo 64-66: enter the forms
- 11. Phaedo 72-78: the forms and recollection
- 12. The beautiful in the Symposium
- 13. Phaedo 95a-107b: forms and causes
- 14. Conclusion
- References
- Index of passages cited
- General index.
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