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Plato's individuals /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- One: The Problem of Individuation
- 1. The Argument of This Book
- 2. Nothing from Nothing: Vehicles of Change
- 3. The Grammatical Prejudice
- 4. Counting the World, Sorting the World
- 5. Units and Unities
- 6. The Problems of Individuation
- 7. Reading Plato
- Part One: Preliminary: Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics
- Two: Particulars
- 1. Socratic Definitions
- 2. Natural Inherence
- 3. The Compresence of Opposites
- 4. Complex Individuals
- Three: Forms
- 1. Knowledge and the Separation of Forms
- 2. Simple Forms and Explanation
- 3. Understanding and Teleology
- 4. The Theory of Forms
- 5. Forms as Separate Substances
- 6. Counting Forms
- 7. Forms as the Objects of Knowledge
- Part Two: The Problem Emerges
- Four: The One and the Others
- 1. Ones and Manies
- 2. Dialectic and Gymnastic
- 3. Ones and Parts
- 4. Sameness and Difference
- 5. The One in Time
- 6. The Unity of the First Stage
- 7. The Other Stages
- 8. The Verb ""to Be
- Five: Bundles and Lumps
- 1. Knowledge and Perception
- 2. Protagorean Things
- 3. Platonic Bundles
- 4. Flux Attacked
- 5. Perception Attacked
- 6. The Objects of Thought
- 7. Socrates' Dream
- Six: Slices and Stuffs
- 1. Reading the Timaeus
- 2. Tfee Universe Is One and Whole
- 3. Slices
- 4. The Work of Necessity
- 5. Something Basic
- 6. Rereading the Timaeus
- Seven: Being and Talking
- 1. Not-Being
- 2. Being
- 3. ""To Be"" or ""Not""?
- 4. Identity and Unity
- 5. Talking about Something or Other
- 6. Tfce Unanswered Questions
- Part Three: Two Answers
- Eight: Resolving Relations
- 1. Communing Kinds
- 2. The Mesh of Identity
- 3. Somethings Are Such
- 4. Opposites and Difference
- 5. What Kinds?
- 6. Limit and Unlimited
- 7. A Divine Cosmology
- 8. Numbers or What?
- 9. Collection and Division and the Mesh of Identity
- Nine: The Unity of Persons
- 1. Immortal Souls
- 2. Complex Souls
- 3. Sophistic Somebodies
- 4. Persistence: Memory and Continuity
- 5. Consistency and the Arguing Subject
- 6. Syllogizing Souls and the Unity of Consciousness
- 7. Common Properties
- 8. Active Minds
- 9. The Understanding Mind
- Ten: Conclusion
- 1. Plato's Changing Metaphysics
- 2. Plato's Account of Individuation
- 3. Plato and Aristotle
- Appendix A: On the Order of the Dialogues
- Appendix B: Arguments from First Principles
- Select Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Persons
- General Index