Research Catalog

Title

Forms and structure in Plato's metaphysics / Anna Marmodoro.

Author

Marmodoro, Anna, 1975-

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

vi, 223 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. It introduces a fresh perspective on these two thinkers' ideas, displaying the debt of Plato's theory on Anaxagoras's, and principally arguing that their core metaphysical concept is overlap; overlap between properties and things in the world. Initially Plato endorses Anaxagoras's model of constitutional overlap, and subsequently develops qualitative overlap. Overlap is the crux to our understanding of Plato's theory of participation of objects in Forms; of his account of relatives without relations; of the role of Forms as causes; of the transcendent normativity of Forms; of the metaphysics of necessity; and of the role of the Great Kinds and of the paradeigma in the development of Plato's thought. This book shows Plato as ground-breaking in the history of metaphysics, in different ways from those acknowledged so far, and with respect to more metaphysical questions than had been hitherto appreciated; e.g. Plato's treatment of structure as property, of complexity, and his introduction of the first ever account of metaphysical emergence. In addition to these results, the book makes Anaxagoras's and Plato's systems philosophically accessible to us, today's philosophers, by applying conceptual tools from analytic metaphysics to the study of ancient metaphysics. In this way, the book brings Anaxagoras's and Plato's ideas to bear on todays' philosophical discussions and opens up new venues of research for current philosophical discussions"--

Series Statement

Oxford scholarship online

Uniform Title

Oxford scholarship online.

Subject

• Plato
• Anaxagoras
• Form (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.

Call Number

JFD 22-1584

ISBN

• 9780197577158
• 0197577156

LCCN

• 2021007930
• 17368087

OCLC

1240263234

Author

Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- author.

Title

Forms and structure in Plato's metaphysics / Anna Marmodoro.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford scholarship online

Oxford scholarship online.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- Forms and structure in Plato's metaphysics New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780197577172 (DLC) 2021007931

Other Standard Identifier

17368087

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1584