Title: Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved; with a new Introduction, and the Essay Excess and Deficiency at Statesman 283C-285C
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1930972091
ISBN 13: 9781930972094
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Prior to the publication of Plato's Late Ontology in 1983, there was general agreement among Plato scholars that the theses attributed to Plato in Book A of Aristotle's Metaphysics can not be found in the dialogues. Plato's Late Ontology presented a textually based argument that in fact these theses appear both in the Philebus and in the second part of the Parmenides, which link the contents of these dialogues with other long-standing puzzles of Platonic scholarship. The pivotal point of the argument is a number of synonyms for the expressions used by Aristotle in reporting Plato's views, found in the Greek commentators on Aristotle writing during the 3rd to the 6th Centuries A.D. These synonyms are also used by Plato himself in discussing the theses in question. The present book is a reprint of Plato's Late Ontology along with a recent article showing that a subset of these theses can also be found in the section of measurement appearing in the middle of the Statesman. The argument to this effect is an extension of that in Plato's Late Ontology, but is supported by a much expanded list of synonyms from the Greek commentators. original argument for their presence in the Parmenides and the Philebus.

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Kenneth M. Sayre is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy, including Plato's Analytic Method (1969), Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (1976), Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved (1983), Plato's Literary Garden (1995), Parmenides' Lesson (1996), and Belief and Knowledge (1997).

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