Philosophos : Plato's missing dialogue / Mary Louise Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Mary Louise, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Plato's missing dialogue

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Mary Louise Gill presents a bold new explanation of the fact that the dialogue which Plato promised to write on the Philosopher, complementing the Sophist and the Statesman, is missing. Gill argues that he left it unwritten in order to stimulate his readers and encourage them to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained.

Contents:

Introduction

1 The Missing Dialogue

2 Portrait of the Philosopher

3 Puzzle of the Philosopher

1. Forms in Question

1.1 Socrates' Theory of Forms in the Parmenides

1.2 Parmenides' Critique

1.3 A World without Forms

2. A Philosophical Exercise

2.1 Plan of the Exercise in Parmenides Part II

2.2 The Positive Hypothesis

2.3 The First Antinomy

2.4 Instant of Change

2.5 The Second Antinomy

2.6 Summary of the Positive Hypothesis

2.7 Retrospective of the Exercise

2.8 Being and Participation

3. The Contest between Heraclitus and Parmenides

3.1 The Parmenidean Thread in the Theaetetus

3.2 Heraclitean Perception and its Objects

3.3 Parmenidean Perception and its Objects

3.4 Parmenides on Not-Being and Being in the Sophist

3.5 Battle of the Gods and Giants

4. Knowledge as Expertise

4.1 Prologue of the Theaetetus

4.2 Definition of Clay

4.3 Limits of Perception

4.4 True Judgment

4.5 Elements and Complexes

4.6 Accounts

4.7 Knowledge and True Belief

5. Appearances of the Sophist

5.1 The Angler and the Sophist

5.2 Puzzle of the Sophist

5.3 Great Kinds

5.4 Difference

5.5 Sameness and Being

5.6 False Statement

5.7 Producing Appearances

Appendix to Chapter 5: Assessment of the Debate: Being auto kath' hauto and pros alla

6. Refining the Statesman

6.1 The Statesman and the Herdsman

6.2 The Age of Cronus and the Age of Government

6.3 Model of a Model

6.4 The Weaver and the Statesman

6.5 Imitators

6.6 Refining Gold

6.7 Arts of Measurement

6.8 Laws and Expertise

6.9 The Statesman's Knowledge

6.10 Socrates' Name

7. The Philosopher's Object

7.1 Intimations of the Philosopher

7.2 Aporia about Being in the Sophist

7.3 Dialectic in the Sophist

7.4 Excursus on Sound in the Philebus

7.5 Dialectic in the Sophist (Revisited)

7.6 Resolving the Aporia about Being

7.7 The Structure of Being

7.8 Being and Knowledge

7.9 The Philosopher's Name.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191632839

019163283X

0-19-174189-2

0-19-163283-X

1-283-59744-6

0-19-870865-3

9786613909893

OCLC:

922971601