Plato's Individuals

by Mary Margaret McCabe

Book Overview

Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different way than did Aristotle. McCabe explores the centrality of individuation to Plato's thinking, from the Parmenides to the Politicus, illuminating Plato's later metaphysics in an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029393
• ISBN13: 9780691029399
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"