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Plato's forms in transition : = a reading of the Parmenides /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Plato's forms in transition :/ Samuel C. Rickless.
Reminder of title:	a reading of the Parmenides /
Author:	Rickless, Samuel Charles,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Form (Philosophy) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482618
ISBN:	9780511482618 (ebook)

Plato's forms in transition : = a reading of the Parmenides /
Rickless, Samuel Charles,1964-

Plato's forms in transition :a reading of the Parmenides /Samuel C. Rickless. - 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The theory of forms1

There is a mystery at the heart of Plato's Parmenides. In the first part, Parmenides criticizes what is widely regarded as Plato's mature theory of Forms, and in the second, he promises to explain how the Forms can be saved from these criticisms. Ever since the dialogue was written, scholars have struggled to determine how the two parts of the work fit together. Did Plato mean us to abandon, keep or modify the theory of Forms, on the strength of Parmenides' criticisms? Samuel Rickless offers something that has never been done before: a careful reconstruction of every argument in the dialogue. He concludes that Plato's main aim was to argue that the theory of Forms should be modified by allowing that forms can have contrary properties. To grasp this is to solve the mystery of the Parmenides and understand its crucial role in Plato's philosophical development.

ISBN: 9780511482618 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

576192
Plato.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

576275
Form (Philosophy)

LC Class. No.: B378 / .R53 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 184

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