Dominic Scott

Plato's Meno (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue's many enigmas and attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid and sympathetic to Plato's philosophy. Reading the dialogue as a whole, it explains how different arguments are related to one another and how the interplay between characters is connected to the philosophical content of the work. In a new departure, this book's exploration focuses primarily on the content and coherence of the dialogue in its own right and not merely in the context of other dialogues, making it required reading for all students of Plato, be they from the world of classics or philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511145209
• Artikelnr.: 38194692

Autorenporträt

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle.[a] Plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality.[4] The so-called Neoplatonism of philosophers like Plotinus and Porphyry influenced Saint Augustine and thus Christianity. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."[5] Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. Plato is also considered the founder of Western political philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism). He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids. His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself.[b] Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years.[7] Although their popularity has fluctuated over the years, the works of Plato have never been without readers since the time they were written

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. The opening: 70a-71d
2. The first definition: 71e-73c
3. A lesson in definition: 73c-77d
4. The third definition: 77b-79e
5. Meno as interlocutor
Part II: 6. The stingray: 79e-80d
7. 'Meno's paradox': 80d-81a
8. The emergence of recollection: 81a-e
9. The argument for recollection: 82b-85d
10. The conclusion: 86b6-c2
Part III: 11. The method of hyposthesis: 86c-87c
12. Virtue is teachable: 87c-89c
13. Virtue is not teachable: 89e-96d
14. Virtue as true belief: 96d-100b
15. Irony in the Meno: the evidence of the Gorgias
16. Meno's progress
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Indexes.