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Likeness and likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato
- Title
- Likeness and likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato / Jenny Bryan.
- Author
- Bryan, Jenny, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 210 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The Greek word eoikos can be translated in various ways. It can be 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 their 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"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge classical studies
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge classical studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Greek texts translated in English.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Xenophanes' fallibilism; 2. Parmenides' allusive ambiguity; 3. Plato's Timaeus; Imitation and limitation in Timaeus' proemium; Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-1404
- ISBN
- 9780521762946 (hc.)
- 0521762944 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2011031546
- OCLC
- YBP 2011031546
- Author
- Bryan, Jenny, 1979-
- Title
- Likeness and likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato / Jenny Bryan.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Series
- Cambridge classical studiesCambridge classical studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language
- Greek texts translated in English.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-1404