Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato)

R Allen, R E Allen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415626323
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136236440
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Did Plato abandon, or sharply modify, the Theory of Forms in later life? In the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic it is generally agreed that Plato held that universals exist. But in Parmenides, he subjected that theory to criticism. If the criticism were valid, and Plato knew so, then the Parmenides marks a turning point in his thought. If, however, Plato became aware that there are radical differences in the logical behaviour of concepts, and the later dialogues are a record of his attempt to analyse those differences, then Plato's thought can be said to have moved in a new and vitally important direction after the Parmenides. Studies in Plato's Metaphysics brings together twenty essays by leading philosophers from the UK and the USA reflecting upon this important issue and upon the questions arising from it.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I The Philosophical Economy of the Theory of Ideas (1936)
• II Logos and Forms in Plato (1954)
• III Logos and Forms in Plato: a Reply to Professor Cross (1956)
• IV Participation and Predication in Plato's Middle Dialogues (1960)
• V Mathematics and Dialectic in the Republic VI–VII (1932)
• VI Plato's Parmenides (1939)
• VII Plato's Parmenides (1959)
• VIII Knowledge and Forms in Plato's Theaetetus (1957)
• IX Symploke Eidon1 (1955)
• X Plato and the Copula: Sophist 251–259 (1957)
• XI Plato's Description of Division (1954)
• XII The Third Man Argument in the Parmenides1 (1954)
• XIII The Third Man Again (1956)
• XIV Postscript to the Third Man: A Reply to Mr. Geach (1956)
• XV A Proof in the Peri Ideon (1957)
• XVI The Place of the Timaeus in Plato's Dialogues (1953)
• XVII The Relation of the Timaeus To Plato's Later Dialogues1 (1957)
• XVIII The Disorderly Motion in the Timaeus (1939)
• XVIIIa Creation in the Timaeus: is it a Fiction? (1964)
• XIX Necessity and Persuasion in Plato's Timaeus1 (1950)
• XX Plato's Theism (1936)
• Index Locorum