Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman

Bibliographic Data

ID23164641
AuthorsKenneth M Sayre (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2006
Publication date2006-07-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMetaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511584596
OpenAlexW935871295
Open LibraryOL34440126M
ISBN9780511584596
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited15

At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they have debated the significance of these claims, some arguing that they constituted an 'unwritten teaching' and others maintaining that Aristotle was mistaken in attributing them to Plato. In a prior book-length study on Plato's late ontology, Kenneth M. Sayre demonstrated that, despite differences in terminology, these claims correspond to themes developed by Plato in the Parmenides and the Philebus. In this book, which was originally published in 2006, he shows how this correspondence can be extended to key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman. He also examines the interpretative consequences for other sections of that dialogue, particularly those concerned with the practice of dialectical inquiry.

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