David Ebrey: The Unfolding Account of Forms in the Phaedo
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
David Ebrey: The Unfolding Account of Forms in the Phaedo
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Perhaps Plato’s most famous idea is that things like justice, piety, largeness, and equality are what he calls “forms,” which are in some significant way different from sensible things. While this is an important idea for Plato, it is hard to find an account in the dialogues of why he thinks it and how, exactly, they are supposed to be different. In this paper I argue that scholars have not understood Socrates’ account in the Phaedo because this dialogue has an unusual structure: Socrates’ account of the forms unfolds in five stages over the course of the dialogue. In order to fully understand the claims made in the first stage, one must look to the next stage, and so on until the final stage. On my account, Socrates ultimate reason for distinguishing the forms from sensible things have nothing to do with our intuitions about abstract entities nor with the distinction between universal and particular. The ultimate reason why forms cannot be sensible is because forms must do a sort of causal/explanatory work that no sensible thing could do.
Název v anglickém jazyce
David Ebrey: The Unfolding Account of Forms in the Phaedo
Popis výsledku anglicky
Perhaps Plato’s most famous idea is that things like justice, piety, largeness, and equality are what he calls “forms,” which are in some significant way different from sensible things. While this is an important idea for Plato, it is hard to find an account in the dialogues of why he thinks it and how, exactly, they are supposed to be different. In this paper I argue that scholars have not understood Socrates’ account in the Phaedo because this dialogue has an unusual structure: Socrates’ account of the forms unfolds in five stages over the course of the dialogue. In order to fully understand the claims made in the first stage, one must look to the next stage, and so on until the final stage. On my account, Socrates ultimate reason for distinguishing the forms from sensible things have nothing to do with our intuitions about abstract entities nor with the distinction between universal and particular. The ultimate reason why forms cannot be sensible is because forms must do a sort of causal/explanatory work that no sensible thing could do.
Klasifikace
Druh
W - Uspořádání workshopu
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2018
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Místo konání akce
Prague
Stát konání akce
CZ - Česká republika
Datum zahájení akce
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Datum ukončení akce
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Celkový počet účastníků
17
Počet zahraničních účastníků
2
Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků
EUR - Evropská akce