Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman

Zusammenfassung At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In this study, he shows how this correspondence can be extended to key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

Autorentext

Kenneth M. Sayre is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of twenty books, with primary specialty in Plato.

Klappentext

In this study, Sayre discusses key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

Inhalt

Part I. Method: 1. Becoming better dialecticians; 2. Collection in the Phaedras and the Sophist; 3. Division in the Phaedras and the Sophist; 4. Collection yields to illustrative paradigms; 5. The Weaver Paradigm; 6. The Final Definition; Part II. Metaphysics: 7. Excess and deficiency in general; 8. The great and the small in Plato's dialogues; 9. The generation of everything good and fair; 10. Accuracy in the art of dialectic; 11. Division according to forms; 12. The metaphysics of division.