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Plato and his Predecessors
The Dramatisation of Reason
The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures Series
Author: McCabe Mary Margaret
A consideration of how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a late quartet of dialogues.
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Plato and his predecessors the dramatisation of reason
Publication date: 08-2000
328 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 08-2000
328 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Plato and his predecessors: the dramatisation of reason
Publication date: 03-2007
328 p. · 15x22.8 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 03-2007
328 p. · 15x22.8 cm · Paperback
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How does Plato view his philosophical antecedents? Plato and his Predecessors considers how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a late quartet of dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus and the Philebus. Why is it that the sophist Protagoras, or the monist Parmenides, or the advocate of flux, Heraclitus, are so important in these dialogues? And why are they represented as such shadowy figures, barely present at their own refutations? The explanation, the author argues, is a complex one involving both the reflective relation between Plato's dramatic technique and his philosophical purposes, and the very nature of his late philosophical views. For in these encounters with his predecessors we see Plato develop a new account of the principles of reason, against those who would deny them, and forge a fresh view of the best life - the life of the philosopher.
Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Opponents: 2. Measuring sincerity; 3. Missing persons; 4. Can the Heraclitean live his Heracliteanism?; Part II. Teleology: 5. Myth and its end; 6. Outwitting the cunning man; Part III. Reason and the Philosopher: 7. Tracking down the philosopher; 8. The sufficiency of reason; 9. Meeting Socrates' challenge; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.
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