Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1930972040 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lucid, insightful, reasoned, and iconoclastic Midwest Book Review "Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist" by David Ambuel (Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Kurt F. Leidecker Chair of Asian Studies at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia) provides contemporary students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the writings of Plato with a new translation of Plato's dial. some guy said Image and Paradigm in Plato's "Whaaaaaaaa?". I want to first say that I have not read this book. But, I want to make a comment directed to whoever is responsible for the typo in the title of this work. Plato's dialogue is, of course, the "Sophist." The title of this work should read "Image and Paradigm in Plato's 'Sophist'" not "Sohpist." I would have probably already purchased this
The Sophist is shown to be not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, which reveals both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Plato’s criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry. The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretatio
This book will, over time, revolutionize our understanding of the Sophist and of Plato's later philosophy.". E. By analyzing its treatment of resemblance and participation, Ambuel concludes that its structure is aporetic. Allen, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Northwestern University "It is generally supposed that the Sophist contains the core of Plato’s later metaphysics, which must then have identified not-being and difference. This account is highly original. David Ambuel undertakes to show that this identification implies that determination is negation, a doctrine which destroys the distinction between accidental and essential determination, and thereby the theory of forms. It is also very likely true. As doctrine, the Sophist points toward Speussippus, not Plat