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Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By Anna Marmodoro

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By Anna Marmodoro

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This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. The book introduces a fresh perspective on these two thinkers' ideas, displaying thedebt of Plato's theory on Anaxagoras's, and principally arguing that their core metaphysical concept is overlap; overlap between properties and things in the world. Initially Plato endorses Anaxagoras's model of constitutional overlap, and subsequently develops qualitative overlap. Overlap is thecrux to our understanding of objects participating in Forms in Plato's metaphysics; of Plato's account of relata without relations; of the role of Forms as causes; of the metaphysics of necessity; and of the role of the Great Kinds and of the paradeigma in the development of Plato's thought. Anna Marmodoro argues that Plato is ground-breaking in the history of metaphysics, in different ways from those acknowledged so far, and with respect to more metaphysical questions than had been hitherto appreciated; e.g. Plato's treatment of structure as property; of complexity; and hisintroduction of the first ever account of metaphysical emergence. In addition to these results, Marmodoro makes Anaxagoras's and Plato's systems philosophically accessible to us, today's philosophers, by applying conceptual tools from analytic metaphysics to the study of ancient metaphysics. In this way, the book brings Anaxagoras's and Plato's ideas to bear ontodays' philosophical discussions and opens up new venues of research for current philosophical discussions.
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Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2021-12-03
Publication Date:
2021-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197577156
ISBN13:
9780197577158
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
429 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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