Kenneth M. Sayre

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Sayre discusses key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349628
• ISBN-10: 0521349621
• Artikelnr.: 33609147

Autorenporträt

Kenneth M. Sayre is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of twenty books, with primary specialty in Plato.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Method: 1. Becoming better dialecticians
2. Collection in the Phaedras and the Sophist
3. Division in the Phaedras and the Sophist
4. Collection yields to illustrative paradigms
5. The Weaver Paradigm
6. The Final Definition
Part II. Metaphysics: 7. Excess and deficiency in general
8. The great and the small in Plato's dialogues
9. The generation of everything good and fair
10. Accuracy in the art of dialectic
11. Division according to forms
12. The metaphysics of division.