A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides

by Eric Sanday

Book Overview

In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato's "theory of forms" is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle to understanding the theory of forms is the distorting effect of the tacit metaphysical privileging of individual things in our everyday understanding. For Plato, this privileging of things that we can own, produce, exchange, and through which we gain mastery of our surroundings is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134853
• ISBN13: 9780810134850
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"