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One over Many - Necip Fikri Alican

One over Many

The Unitary Pluralism of Plato's World
Buch | Hardcover
426 Seiten
2021
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8563-8 (ISBN)
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Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.
Finalist for the 2022 PROSE Award in the Philosophy category presented by the Association of American Publishers

One over Many is a groundbreaking interpretation of Plato's philosophical outlook, solving longstanding problems in the scholarly literature. Its originality and its strength consist in replacing the metaphysical dualism of the traditional interpretation with the paradigm of unitary pluralism: one world with a gradation of reality, including three different types of Forms, as well as the entire spectrum of sensible phenomena, with intermediate ontological constructs in between. The model thus combines a monism of worlds with a pluralism of things, positing a unitary reality of infinite possibilities through ontological stratification. This tightly integrated collection of essays, conceived and developed by the author in pursuit of corrective intervention in Plato’s metaphysics, combines his previously published work with newly drafted material for the present volume. The book replaces the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel interpretation providing greater explanatory power through the paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

Necip Fikri Alican is a philosopher specializing in ethics and metaphysics, both especially from a historical perspective.

Foreword: Exploring Plato's Forms
Nicholas D. Smith

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Plato's World: The Standard Model
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Why Two Worlds?
1.3 What Are the Forms?
1.4 How Does It All Work?
1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Rethinking Plato's Forms
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Stratification of Reality
2.3 A Two-Level Model
2.4 Classification of Forms
2.5 Terminological Clues and Methodological Observations
2.6 Ideal Forms
2.7 Conceptual Forms
2.8 Relational Forms
2.9 First Principles
2.10 Negative Forms?
2.11 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Rethought Forms: How Do They Work?
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The General Enterprise
3.3 The Stratification of Reality
3.4 The Classification of Forms
3.5 The Continuum of Abstraction
3.6 Conclusion

Chapter 4: A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course, but What about Horseness?
4.1 Bunny in the Clouds
4.2 Horses and Horseness
4.3 Modes of Existence
4.4 Second Sailing

Chapter 5: Ontological Symmetry in Plato: Formless Things and Empty Forms
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Evidence
5.3 Formless Things
5.4 Empty Forms
5.5 Conclusion

Chapter 6: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Does Plato Make Room for Negative Forms in His Ontology?
6.1 The Question of Negative Forms in Plato
6.2 Embracing Negative Forms with Debra Nails
6.3 Rejecting Negative Forms with Holger Thesleff
6.4 The Semblance and Structure of Negativity in Plato
6.5 The Relevance and Supremacy of the Good in Plato

Chapter 7: Between a Form and a Hard Place: The Problem of Intermediates in Plato
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Plato through Aristotle
7.3 Aristotle as Historian
7.4 Discrepancies and Contradictions
7.5 Implications for Reliability
7.6 Plato through Plato
7.7 Conclusion

Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 1-4384-8563-8 / 1438485638
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-8563-8 / 9781438485638
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