1996, ISBN: 9780268038175

Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, XX, 383 p. Original cloth. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tr… Mehr…

Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, XX, 383 p. Original cloth. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Barcode on the back, minimal staining on bottom edge, overall very good and clean. / Barcode auf der Rückseite, minimale Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Introduction: Plato?s Parmenides was probably written within the last two decades preceding the death of its author in 347 b.c. Despite almost two millennia of documented commentary, however, scholars today are still struggling to make sense of the dialogue. Almost every major discussion of the Pan menides in this century has begun with some remark about its extraordinary difficulty; and no line of interpretation has yet been offered that a majority of commentators find persuasive. The main problem of interpretation, most agree, is what to make of Plato?s treatment of the several hypotheses that constitutes the second portion of the dialogue (Stephanus 137C-166C, referred to subsequently as ?Parmenides II?). One source of perplexity is that this latter portion fails to exhibit any obvious continuity of subject matter with the first part of the dialogue (?Parmenides 1?), making it difficult to determine what the dialogue as a whole is about. To make matters worse, the argumentation of the second part is so extremely condensed that it sometimes gives the appearance of being incoherent. As a result, not only are individual arguments often very hard to decipher, but moreover it is far from apparent what Plato was trying to accomplish with these arguments in the first place. Before explaining the interpretive strategy to be followed in the present study, it will be helpful to look briefly at the main alternatives. - Professor Kenneth M. Sayre, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Plato?s Literary Garden (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) and Plato?s Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved (Princeton University Press, 1983). ISBN 9780268038175Philosophie 1996, [PU: University of Notre Dame Press]<

1996, ISBN: 9780268038175

University of Notre Dame Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Revised ed. 383 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-12-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.8 kg, Philosophiegeschichte, Philosophie, Sozi… Mehr…

University of Notre Dame Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Revised ed. 383 Seiten, Publiziert: 1996-12-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.8 kg, Philosophiegeschichte, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Antike, Bewegungen & Epochen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Literatur & Fiktion, University of Notre Dame Press, 1996<