Plato's Forms Varieties of Interpretation

by Welton, William A.; Benso, Silvia; Bowery, Anne-Marie; Gerson, Lloyd P.; Gonzalez, Francisco J.; Hunt, David P.; Hyland, Drew A.; Roochnik, David; Sayre, Kenneth M.; Silverman, Allan; Waugh, Joanne B.; Wilkinson, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780739105146
• ISBN10: 0739105140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the Forms in Plato's dialogues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Plato's Mysterious Forms	1	(30)
William A. Welton
Plato's Dialectic of Forms	31	(54)
Francisco J. Gonzalez
Plato's Development and the Development of the Theory of Forms	85	(26)
Lloyd P. Gerson
Plato's Theory of Forms: Recollecting and Recovering the Soul	111	(26)
Anne-Marie Bowery
Metaphysics and Pronouns at Phaedo 74b7-9	137	(14)
David Roochnik
Form and Flux in the Theaetetus and Timaeus	151	(18)
David P. Hunt
Do Forms Have a Role in Plato's Philebus?	169	(24)
Kenneth M. Sayre
Philebean Metaphysics	193	(28)
Allan Silverman
Fleshing Out the Form of Beauty: Socrates, Dialogue, and the Forms	221	(18)
Joanne B. Waugh
Lisa Wilkinson
Is Plato a Metaphysical Thinker? Rereading the Sophist after the Middle Heidegger	239	(18)
P. Christopher Smith
Against a Platonic ``Theory'' of Forms	257	(16)
Drew A. Hyland
Plato's Eidetic Intimations	273	(16)
Silvia Benso
Bibliography	289	(12)
Index	301	(18)
About the Contributors	319