Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Xenophanes' fallibilism; 2. Parmenides' allusive ambiguity; 3. Plato's Timaeus; Imitation and limitation in Timaeus' proemium; Conclusion.

About the author

Jenny Bryan is Lecturer in Classical Philosophy at University College London.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Bryan, Jenny (University College London) Bryan, Bryan Jenny
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108994095
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99409-5
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: 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