John Palmer (University of Florida)

The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of Plato's Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul's immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis.

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Produktdetails

• Elements in Ancient Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9781108930871
• ISBN-10: 1108930875
• Artikelnr.: 60713794

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The inconclusive character of the Phaedo's arguments
3. The dialectical function of the method of hypothesis
4. Dialectical progression in the discussion of suicide
5. The dialectical function of the cyclical arguments
6. The recollection argument's introduction of the Forms hypothesis
7. The turn to the nature of soul in the affinity argument
8. Soul as substance in Socrates' response to Simmias
9. Toward the nature of soul in the final argument
10. Justified belief on the way to first principles
11. Mythologia and the Philosophic Life.