Plato on being, time, and recollection
In his dialogues Plato presents two ways of reasoning about Being. First, he constructs contrasting images that depict Being as if it were a spatiotemporal entity. Second, when a higher-order form of reasoning is needed, he uses the concept of the one and its relation to arithmos as an analogue for...
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| Published in | SHOLE. Filosofskoe antikovedenie i klassičeskaâ tradiciâ Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 550 - 566 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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2022
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In his dialogues Plato presents two ways of reasoning about Being. First, he constructs contrasting images that depict Being as if it were a spatiotemporal entity. Second, when a higher-order form of reasoning is needed, he uses the concept of the one and its relation to arithmos as an analogue for Being and its relation to not-Being. In Plato’s dialogues, images and arithmos are not mutually exclusive. Rather, they are complementary; Plato sometimes employs an image of a whole to portray that which is neither spatial nor temporal. Such an image is determined by a conceptual structure that joins many into one. Focusing on the Sophist and the Meno, I argue that the theory of recollection presents such an image. |
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| ISSN: | 1995-4328 1995-4336 |
| DOI: | 10.25205/1995-4328-2022-16-2-550-566 |