product iamge

Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure

This document was uploaded by one of our users. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish it. If you are author/publisher or own the copyright of this documents, please report to us by using this DMCA report form.

Download
Search on Amazon

Simply click on the Download Book button.

Yes, Book downloads on Ebookily are 100% Free.

Sometimes the book is free on Amazon As well, so go ahead and hit "Search on Amazon"

What is the relation between a whole and its parts? The metaphysics of structure and composition is much discussed in modern philosophy; now Verity Harte provides the first sustained examination of Plato's rich but neglected discussion of the topic, and shows how it can illuminate current debates. This book is an invaluable resource both for scholars of Plato and for modern metaphysicians.

Author(s): Verity Harte
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 200

Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1. The Problem of Composition......Page 19
1.1 Is a Whole (just) the Sum of its Parts?......Page 20
1.2 Mereology or Magic?......Page 24
1.3 Restrictions upon Composition?......Page 29
1.4 Ontological Innocence......Page 32
1.5 Composition and the Problem of the One and the Many......Page 37
1.6 Theaetetus 203–206......Page 43
2. Composition as Identity in the Parmenides and Sophist......Page 59
2.1 Socrates' Puzzle: The Conversation with Zeno......Page 61
2.2 Two Kinds of ‘Part’ in the Dilemma of Participation: Parmenides 131a–c......Page 75
2.3 Atomic Ones and In.nite Collections: The First and Second Deductions......Page 84
2.4 Composition: Identity or Distinctness?......Page 100
2.5 Eleaticism and Ontological Innocence......Page 111
3. A New Model of Composition......Page 128
3.1 Composition: A Sui Generis Relation......Page 129
3.2 Unity and Structure......Page 133
3.3 Bare Pluralities......Page 145
3.4 Restrictions upon Composition......Page 149
4.1 Two Ways of Thinking about Structure......Page 169
4.2 The Sophist: A First Platonic Example of Structure......Page 178
4.3 The Philebus: Structure and Content......Page 188
4.4 The Timaeus: Structures within Structures......Page 223
5. Plato's Metaphysics of Structure......Page 278
5.1 The Platonic Context......Page 280
5.2 Plato's Model of Composition......Page 284
References......Page 294
D......Page 304
I......Page 305
M......Page 306
P......Page 307
S......Page 308
U......Page 309
Z......Page 310
C......Page 311
L......Page 312
S......Page 313
Z......Page 314
Index Locorum......Page 315