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Plato's Forms in Transition - A Reading of the Parmenides (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,713
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Plato's Forms in Transition - A Reading of the Parmenides (Hardcover): Samuel C. Rickless

Plato's Forms in Transition - A Reading of the Parmenides (Hardcover)

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 allowing that forms can have contrary properties. To grasp this is to solve the mystery of the Parmenides and understand its crucial role in Plato's philosophical development.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2006
First published: 2007
Authors: Samuel C. Rickless
Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86456-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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LSN: 0-521-86456-9
Barcode: 9780521864565

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