The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early ...

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This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid a sceptical conclusion and hold out the prospect that knowledge can be achieved. His argument will be of great value to all readers interested in Plato's dialogues and in methods of philosophical argument more generally.

Über den Autor

Vasilis Politis is Head of Philosophy and Director of the Plato Centre at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-editor of The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (with Giorgos Karamanolis, Cambridge, 2017), and has published numerous essays in journals including Phronesis.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. The Issue of the Justification of Plato's Essentialism: 1. The raising of the ti esti question; 2. How to answer the ti esti question; 3. The thesis of the priority of definition; Part II. The Role of Aporia and the Root of Plato's Essentialism: 4. What are Plato's early dialogues about?; 5. Whether-or-not questions and agonistic argument; 6. Whether-or-not questions and the articulation of aporiai; 7. Aporia-based enquiry aiming at knowledge; 8. What is behind the ti esti question?; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages cited.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107689961
ISBN-10:	1107689961
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Politis, Vasilis
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Vasilis Politis
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.03.2018
Gewicht:	0,39 kg