On ideas : Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of forms / Gail Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Gail, author.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De ideis.

Aristotle.

Plato--Influence.

Plato.

Form (Philosophy).

Universals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages)

Other Title:

Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of forms

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

Includes Greek text and English translation.

Summary:

Gail Fine's On Ideas is a study of Book 1 of Aristotle's short essay Peri Ideon, in which Aristotle presents a systematic account of a series of five arguments for the existence of Platonic forms along with a series of objections to each of these arguments.

Contents:

Text and translation

Introduction

Evidence, provenance, and chronology

Platonic questions

The arguments from the sciences : forms and knowledge

Forms of artefacts

Plato and the arguments from the sciences

The one over many argument : forms and predication

The object of thought argument : forms and thought

The argument from relatives

Completeness and compresence : Owen on the argument from relatives

Kath' hauto and pros ti

Aristotle's objections to the argument from relatives

The accurate one over many argument

Third man arguments

Is Plato vulnerable to the third man argument?

Notes:

Includes Greek text and English translation of Aristotle's Peri ideon (p. [1]-19).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-376) and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-159739-2

0-19-151951-0

1-282-05191-1

9786612051913

OCLC:

922954300