Parmenides and the History of Dialectic - Three Essays

A study of the form of Parmenides? argument in relation to the form of Plato's dialogue ?The Parmenides? and to the form of subsequent dialectic in the Western tradition.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Scott Austin Graduated from Yale, and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Boston University and at Texas A&M University and has been a Visiting Fellow in the Princeton University philosophy department and at Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship as well as awards for teaching and academic advising. His first book, Parmenides: Being, Bounds, and Logic was published by Yale University Press (1986).

Zusammenfassung

What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of philosophical argument as we know it? How did Parmenides' method affect Plato's dialectic, which was supposed to provide the solution to all ultimate philosophical problems? This title offers a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Scott Austin
• Verlag: Parmenides Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.07.2007
• EAN: 9781930972193
• ISBN: 978-1-930972-19-3
• Seiten: 112
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 211 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 313 g
• Thema: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart