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One over many the unitary pluralism of Plato's world /

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alican, Necip Fikri (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Colección:Suny series in ancient Greek philosophy
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Exploring Plato's Forms
  • Introduction
  • Disclosure of My Own Bias
  • Judging What Belongs to This World
  • Different Kinds of Forms?
  • The Special Problem of Negative Forms
  • Degrees of Reality
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Plato's World: The Standard Model
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Why Two Worlds?
  • 1.3. What Are the Forms?
  • 1.4. How Does It All Work?
  • 1.5. Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Rethinking Plato's Forms
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Stratification of Reality
  • 2.3. A Two-Level Model
  • 2.4. Classification of Forms
  • 2.5. Terminological Clues and Methodological Observations
  • 2.6. Ideal Forms
  • 2.7. Conceptual Forms
  • 2.8. Relational Forms
  • 2.9. First Principles
  • 2.10. Negative Forms?
  • 2.11. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Rethought Forms: How Do They Work?
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. The General Enterprise
  • 3.3. The Stratification of Reality
  • 3.4. The Classification of Forms
  • 3.5. The Continuum of Abstraction
  • 3.6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course, but What about Horseness?
  • 4.1. Bunny in the Clouds
  • 4.2. Horses and Horseness
  • 4.3. Modes of Existence
  • 4.4. Second Sailing
  • Chapter 5 Ontological Symmetry in Plato: Formless Things and Empty Forms
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. The Evidence
  • 5.3. Formless Things
  • 5.4. Empty Forms
  • 5.5. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Does Plato Make Room for Negative Forms in His Ontology?
  • 6.1. The Question of Negative Forms in Plato
  • 6.2. Embracing Negative Forms with Debra Nails
  • 6.3. Rejecting Negative Forms with Holger Thesleff
  • 6.4. The Semblance and Structure of Negativity in Plato
  • 6.5. The Relevance and Supremacy of the Good in Plato
  • Chapter 7 Between a Form and a Hard Place: The Problem of Intermediates in Plato
  • 7.1. Introduction.
  • 7.2. Plato through Aristotle
  • 7.3. Aristotle as Historian
  • 7.4. Discrepancies and Contradictions
  • 7.5. Implications for Reliability
  • 7.6. Plato through Plato
  • 7.7. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.