... all probability, Plato's own statement; made indeed to be read by friends in Syracuse in explanation of the role he had played ...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Thinking Being , Perl articulates central arguments and ideas regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas, thematizing the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, and focusing on continuity rather than opposition within this tradition.

In Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit (1930/31; 1942) deutet Heidegger die Platonische Auffassung von Wahrheit, so wie sie im Hohlengleichnis (Politeia) zum Ausdruck kommt, als Unverborgenheit eines Unverborgenen (der idea). Damit steht Platon fur Heidegger am Beginn der metaphysischen Wahrheitsauffassung, die in Nietzsche als dem Vollender der Metaphysik ihren Kulminationspunkt erreicht. Heidegger insistiert gegenuber Platon darauf, dass das Wesen der Wahrheit als Unverborgenheit anfanglicher gedacht werden muss. Das Wesen der Wahrheit ereignet sich als ein Wahrheitsgeschehen, das mit den traditionellen metaphysischen, (...) von Vernunft, Subjektivitat und Logizitat gepragten Denkformen nicht erfasst werden kann. Die Ausgabe enthalt auch den griechischen Text des Hohlengleichnisses sowie Heideggers Ubersetzung. Der Text dieser Ausgabe ist wort- und Seitengleich mit dem Abdruck des Textes in der 3. Auflage der Wegmarken als Band 9 der Gesamtausgabe sowie mit der Einzelausgabe der Wegmarken in der Reihe Klostermann RoteReihe. (shrink)

A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, all of Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporary analytical philosophers. White's extensive introduction explores the dialogue's center themes, its connection with related discussions in other dialogues, and its implication for the interpretation of Plato's metaphysics.

The problem of being is central to Western metaphysics. Etched sharply in the verses of Parmenides, it took on distinctive colouring in Aristotle as the subject matter of a science expressly labelled 'theological.' For Aristotle, being could not be shared in generic fashion by other natures. As a nature it had to be found not in various species but in a primary instance only. The science specified by the primary nature was accordingly the one science that under the aspect of (...) being treated universally of whatever is: it dealt with being qua being. (shrink)

"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."--from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to (...) show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony. (shrink)

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is an original interpretation of Plato's enigmatic statements about the idea of the Good.