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Fritz-Gregor Herrmann - Words and Ideas - 9781905125203 - V9781905125203
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Words and Ideas

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Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory, as well as on Presocratic philosophy. Words & Ideas offers a study of Plato's philosophical language against this cultural background, retracing to their origins the history and development of the key terms of the Theory of Forms as presented in the Phaedo. 'Form' or 'idea', 'ousia' or 'being', 'participation', 'presence' and 'community' are among the concepts investigated. Te aim is to determine both the connotations of Plato's philosophical terms and the precise historical and philosophical contexts on which Plato drew in the formulation of his thoughts. In tracing the roots of Plato's philosophy, Words & Ideas demarcates afresh Plato's position regarding the protagonists of pre-Socratic philosophy: Parmenides and the Eleatics, Anaxagoras and Diogenes of Apollonia, Leucippus and Democritus, Philolaus and the Pythagoreans. This identifcation of his sources allows us, in many cases for the frst time, to judge what in the arguments of the dialogues is Plato's own contribution and what is there only as part of a philosophical or pre-philosophical inheritance.

Product Details

Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905125203
SKU
V9781905125203
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Ref
99-50

About Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wales Swansea. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on PlatoAes language and thought, and editor of New Essays on Plato (Classical Press of Wales, 2006). He is currently co-editing, with Terry Penner and Douglas Cairns, Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in PlatoAes Republic (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

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