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The Crane'S Walk : Plato, Pluralism, And The Inconstancy Of Truth.

In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fordham University Press 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Understandings of Plato and a Feature of Truth-Seeking Thought
  • PART I: IDEAS OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
  • INTRODUCTORY: Internal and External Connections
  • IDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else)
  • IDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions
  • IDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric
  • IDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages
  • IDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth
  • IDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality
  • IDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought
  • IDEA 8 Mixture and Purity
  • PART II: TRUTH AND LOVE
  • CHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview
  • CHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge
  • CHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love
  • CHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct
  • CONCLUSION: The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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