Platonic Causes Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23174279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bailey (0000-0003-0020-4778, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), D T J Bailey |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-32 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the history of philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5053 • E-ISSN: 1538-4586 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hph.2014.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W1999471031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper offers a new interpretation of the notorious section of Plato’s Phaedo , 96a–103a, in which Socrates discourses on the nature of cause and explanation. I offer new reasons for an old account of why Socrates rejects his predecessors’ views wholesale, before turning to a new account of his positive proposals. I steer a path between the two most influential modern approaches to the text by highlighting Socrates’ avowed methodology, arguing that he is not, in the relevant passages, trying to do anything more than provide adequacy conditions for causation. Finally I use these results to illuminate the further fragment of theory he provides in the proof of the soul’s immortality, offering some explanatory models for why Socrates develops his own position s he does. These are quite different from, and more fruitful than, those suggested by the opposing modern approaches previously navigated.
Causation · Economics · Epistemology · Immortality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Position (finance) · Section (typography) · SOCRATES · Soul · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |