Plato and his Predecessors
The Dramatisation of Reason (The W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6532478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Margaret Mccabe |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 326 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Plato and his Predecessors (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511552601 |
| ISBN | 9780511552601 |
| Open Library | OL7750301M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
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.
Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy · Dialogue · Dialogues · General · History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical · Plato · ancient · Philosophy
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Spectacles of truth in classical Greek philosophy
Teleology, Causation and the Atlas Motif in Plato’s Phaedo
State, freedom, knowledge
The Jellyfish’s Pleasures
The Incredible Vanishing Measure Doctrine (Theaetetus 170a3–171d8)
The Last Natural Philosophers in Plato’s Phaedo 99b2-c6
Plato on Love
Plato on Education and Art
Plato in his Time and Place
Plato and Platonism
Plato's Metaphysics
Classical Representations and Uses of the Presocratics
Hedonistic Persons. The Good Man Argument in Plato's Philebus
Plato and Anaximenes
Chaos corrected
Protagoras Refuted
First Chop Your Logos …
Language and doctrine in Parmenides’ Way of Reality
Plato's Philosophy of Language
Plato's Epistemology
The Sophist on Statements, Predication, and Falsehood
Plato and Hesiod
Plato on Parts and Wholes
Plato's Hesiod and the will of Zeus
Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
A path to perfect knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus
Platonic Dialogue, Maieutic Method and Critical Thinking
On the Status of Nous in the Philebus
The Realism of Universals in Plato and Nyāya
The Age of Anxiety
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |