Forms and Concepts
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Forms and Concepts

Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition

  1. 407 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Forms and Concepts

Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition

About this book

Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato's innatist approach and Aristotle's much more empirical response. The primary aim is to analyze and assess the strategies with which Platonists responded to Aristotle's (and Alexander of Aphrodisias') rival theory. The monograph culminates in a careful reconstruction of the elaborate attempt undertaken by the Neoplatonist Proclus (6th century AD) to devise a systematic Platonic theory of concept acquisition.

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Table of contents

  1. A word of thanks
  2. Introduction
  3. I. Concepts – (ancient) problems and solutions
  4. II. Plato on learning as recollection
  5. III. Aristotle’s reaction to Plato
  6. IV. Three case studies: Alcinous, Alexander & Porphyry, and Plotinus
  7. V. Syrianus’ and Proclus’ attitude towards Aristotle
  8. VI. The crucial role of doxastic concepts in Proclus’ epistemology
  9. VII. Proclus’ Platonic theory of concept attainment
  10. VIII. Plato and Aristotle in harmony? – Some conclusions
  11. Bibliography
  12. Indices