(Causality) Things that are F (other than the F) are F by virtue of partaking of the F. Parmenides's summary of the issues at stake and the need for training (2) Conclusion: Absolute & Complete Separationģ. (B) Separate forms concern only things separate (A) None of the absolute ideas exist in us (133C) Are the Forms patterns (paradigms) in Nature? the largeness of the Large (131E-132B): First Regress Argument "partake"-How is it to be understood? (130E-131E)ī. Parmenides's criticism of Form Theory (130E-134E)Ī. Of what things are there Forms? (130A-E)Ģ. (ii) Socrates' response: the Theory of Forms as a refutation of Zenoī. (i) The 1st hypothesis of the first argument of Zeno Zeno and an introduction to Form Theory (127-130E) First Part of the Story: Zeno, Parmenides and Socratesġ. QUIRK, MICHAEL JOHN, "CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC COMMENTARY ON PLATO'S "PARMENIDES": A CRITIQUE" (1984).
Plato's Sophist, Timaeus, Philebus, and other later works are shown to amplify the reductio conclusions of Parmenides. In support of my argument, I try to show the substantive historical breaks and continuities of Plato's philosophy with Parmenides' "Way of Truth", and the continuing relevance of Parmenidean monism in Plato's later thought. I argue that the TMA's are best viewed as reductio ad absurdum arguments on self-predicative eide when placed in that context. I criticise the work of Vlastos, Ryle, Crombie, Strang, and Allen on the TMA insofar as they all indicate a neglect of the literary and historical context of the Third Man Arguments.
I focus on the dispute over "self-predication" in Plato's theory of Forms as presented in the Parmenides. Such a self-image, however, hampers the task of interpretation in that (i) it de-emphasises the all-important literary aspect of Plato's work, and (ii) it neglects the historicity of philosophy, the differences between Plato's philosophical problematic and that of analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophers have traditionally seen linguistic analysis as the true method of philosophy, one wherein perennial philosophical problems can possibly be definitively solved. In this thesis I attempt to identify and criticise what I believe are serious deficiencies in contemporary analytic commentary on Plato, and to show how many of these deficiencies stem from a shared analytic "self-image". CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC COMMENTARY ON PLATO'S "PARMENIDES": A CRITIQUE
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