The unity of oneness and plurality in Plato's Theaetetus / Daniel Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Daniel (Assistant Professor of Philosophy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Theaetetus.

Plato.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Unity of Oneness and Plurality in Plato's </span><span>Theaetetus</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>is a commentary on a single Platonic dialogue that offers readers an example of what it means to meaningfully engage with a dialogue on its own terms. In the process of engaging with the </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Theaetetus,</span><span> the book offers an account of a general Platonic epistemology and ontology.</span></span>

Contents:

The Unity Of Oneness And Plurality In Plato's Theaetetus; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 0.1 Sketch of the book's main argument; 0.2 Outline of the primary sections of the dialogue; 0.3 Outline of the book's chapters; Chapter One: The One and the Many; 1.1 Images representing the dialogue's fundamental opposition; 1.2 Impossibility of contradiction for Heraclitus and Parmenides; 1.3 Impossibility of logos for Heraclitus and Parmenides; 1.4 Evidence that the opposition is supposed to be focused on; 1.4.1 First marker: the frame (142a-143d)

1.4.2 Second marker: first attempt to define knowledge (146c-148d)1.4.3 Third marker: Socratic midwifery (149a-151d); Chapter Two: The Levels of Being; 2.1 Part one: the refutation of "knowledge is perception" (184b-186e); 2.2 Unpacking the argument; 2.3 Part two: false opinion (187d-201a); 2.3.1 The first argument: knowing or not knowing (188a-e); 2.3.2 The second argument: being or not being (188d-189b); 2.3.3 The third argument: allodoxia, or other-judging (189b-190e); 2.3.4 Section four: the wax block (191c-196c); 2.3.5 Section five: the aviary (197a-200c)

Chapter Three: The Sameness Between the Levels of Being3.1 Outline of upcoming argument; 3.2 The dream in return for a dream (201c-202c); 3.3 The intentionally problematic arguments identifying the all and the whole (204a-205e); 3.4 The dream reversed (206a-c); 3.5 Logos (206c-210b); 3.5.1 First definition of logos (206d-e); 3.5.2 Second definition of logos (206e-207b); 3.5.3 Third definition of logos (207c-210b); Chapter Four: The Difference Between the Levels of Being; 4.1 Making the unintelligible intelligible, and vice versa; 4.2 Every grasp is knowing and no grasp is knowing

4.3 Good logos and bad logosConclusion; Bibliography; Index of names and subjects; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8572-1

OCLC:

913785015