Platonism and naturalism : the possibility of philosophy
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Platonism and naturalism : the possibility of philosophy
Cornell University Press, c2020
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Some copies have different pagination: viii, 301 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index
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Description
In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy.
Gerson contends that Platonism identifies philosophy with a distinct subject matter, namely, the intelligible world and seeks to show that the Naturalist rejection of Platonism entails the elimination of a distinct subject matter for philosophy. Thus, the possibility of philosophy depends on the truth of Platonism. From Aristotle to Plotinus to Proclus, Gerson clearly links the construction of the Platonic system well beyond simply Plato's dialogues, providing strong evidence of the vast impact of Platonism on philosophy throughout history. Platonism and Naturalism concludes that attempts to seek a rapprochement between Platonism and Naturalism are unstable and likely indefensible.
Table of Contents
Introduction
2. Platonism vs. Naturalism
2.1. What Is Platonism?
2.2. What Is Naturalism?
2.3. Methodological, Philosophical Naturalism
2.4. A Rapprochement?
3. Plato's Critique of Naturalism
3.1. Some Hermeneutical Assumptions
3.2. The Turn from Naturalism to Metaphysics
3.3. Socrates's "Autobiography" in Phaedo
3.4. Republic on the Subject Matter of Philosophy
3.5. Theaetetus and Sophist on the Subject Matter of Philosophy
4. Plato on Being and Knowing
4.1. Forms as Explanatory Entities
4.2. Eternity and Time
4.3. Nominalism and Its Connection to Relativism
4.4. The Nature and the Possibility of Knowledge
4.5. Some Exigencies of Knowledge and Belief
5. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (1)
5.1. The Idea of the Good, Unhypothetical First Principle of All
5.2. First Principles in Parmenides
5.3. First Principles in Sophist
5.4. First Principles in Philebus
5.5. First Principles in Timaeus
5.6. Aristotle's Account of First Principles in Plato
6. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (2)
6.1. The Form of the Good and the Idea of the Good
6.2. Virtue, Knowledge, and the Good
6.3. Platonic Ethics without the Idea of the Good
6.4. The Good, Ethical Prescriptions, and Integrative Unity
6.5. Eros and the Good
7. Aristotle the Platonist
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Aristotle on the Subject Matter of Philosophy
7.3. The Immateriality of Thought
7.4. The Causality of the First Principle
8. Plotinus the Platonist
8.1. The Platonic System
8.2. Critique of Stoicism
8.3. Platonic and Stoic Wisdom
9. Proclus and Trouble in Paradise
9.1. The Dynamics of the Platonic System
9.2. A Crack in the System?
9.3. Damascius
10. Concluding Reflections
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