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Paperback A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides Book

ISBN: 0810134853

ISBN13: 9780810134850

A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides

(Part of the Rereading Ancient Philosophy Series)

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In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato's "theory of forms" is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle to understanding the theory of forms is the distorting effect of the tacit metaphysical privileging of individual things in our everyday understanding. For Plato, this privileging of things that we can own, produce, exchange, and through which we gain mastery of our surroundings is...

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