Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Bryan is Lecturer in Classical Philosophy at University College London. Klappentext The Greek word eoikos can be translated in various ways, being used to describe similarity, plausibility or even suitability. This book explores the philosophical exploitation of its multiple meanings by three philosophers, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Plato. It offers new interpretations of the way that each employs the term to describe the status of his philosophy, tracing the development of this philosophical use of eoikos from the fallibilism of Xenophanes through the deceptive cosmology of Parmenides to Plato's Timaeus. The central premise of the book is that, in reflecting on the eoikos status of their accounts, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Plato are manipulating the contexts and connotations of the term as it has been used by their predecessors. By focusing on this continuity in the development of the philosophical use of eoikos, the book serves to enhance our understanding of the epistemology and methodology of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Plato's Timaeus. Zusammenfassung Studies the philosophical development of the meaning of the Greek word eoikos! which can be used to describe similarity! plausibility or even suitability. It focuses on Xenophanes! Parmenides and Plato's Timaeus and shows how such a study serves to enhance our understanding of their epistemology and methodology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Xenophanes' fallibilism; 2. Parmenides' allusive ambiguity; 3. Plato's Timaeus; Imitation and limitation in Timaeus' proemium; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Jenny Bryan, Jenny (University College London) Bryan, Bryan Jenny
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521762946
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76294-6
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory