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Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman Kenneth M. Sayre (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman By Kenneth M. Sayre (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman by Kenneth M. Sayre (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)


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Summary

At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In this study, he shows how this correspondence can be extended to key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman Summary

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman by Kenneth M. Sayre (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they have debated the significance of these claims, some arguing that they constituted an 'unwritten teaching' and others maintaining that Aristotle was mistaken in attributing them to Plato. In a prior book-length study on Plato's late ontology, Kenneth M. Sayre demonstrated that, despite differences in terminology, these claims correspond to themes developed by Plato in the Parmenides and the Philebus. In this book, he shows how this correspondence can be extended to key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman. He also examines the interpretative consequences for other sections of that dialogue, particularly those concerned with the practice of dialectical inquiry.

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman Reviews

Review of the hardback: ' ... solid and thought-provoking. Students and scholars of Platonic philosophy will find much to ponder here.' BMCR

Table of Contents

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.

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NLS9780521349628
9780521349628
0521349621
Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman by Kenneth M. Sayre (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-07-14
278
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