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, I shall now briefly outline Plato’s and Plotinus’ accounts of the relation between physical beauty and the mental beauty that is supposed to be the origin of physical beauty. This shall provide us with one of the most important ways to avoid the redundancy problem regarding moral beauty and physical
be milestones of progress. The paper illustrates Plato’s intriguing play with theories by the example of the Cratylus , and then proceeds to two further examples that at the same time display the fundamental difference between Plato’s view of human nature, and that of philosophers who have adopted
think, nearly all one needs to say in a first introductory BE-course. Are there any Skeptical Problems looming on the way? I, for my part at least, just cannot detect any. But, I am sure: You all will know how the history of this debate – since Plato’s time – went on and is still going on. »We
think, nearly all one needs to say in a first introductory BE-course. Are there any Skeptical Problems looming on the way? I, for my part at least, just cannot detect any. But, I am sure: You all will know how the history of this debate – since Plato’s time – went on and is still going on. »We
property corresponds to the term ‘G’. We have determined that G is not an appropriate subject for dialectical inquiry.2 On Plato’s view, so long as we are pursuing knowledge, we should be pursuing a unitary account, for only such an account will express genuine understanding of real properties that can be
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. Literatur Burnyeat, Myles: The Theaetetus of Plato, Indianapolis, Cambridge: Hackett 1990. Chappell, Timothy: Reading Plato’s Theaetetus, Indianapolis, Cambridge: Hackett 2005; zuerst Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag 2004. Cooper, John M.: „The Unity of Virtue“, in: Ders.: Reason and Emotion. Essays on
bodily desires pose is their power to inuence the soul’s beliefs about which things merit attention, concern, and pursuit (83c2-8). Non-rational inuence on belief is a topic of major interest in a number of Plato’s dia- logues, including dialogues as apparently different in moral psychology as the
Plotinus, to my knowledge, does not refer to this passage explicitly. It seems, though, eminently plausible that he would wish to refute Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s position in the Theatetus that the merest piece of perceptual knowledge requires the use of a priori concepts. This would support
-Sperber (1991), ist davon jedoch keine Notiz genommen worden. Nehamas (1994) 247 n. 37 referiert die These meiner beiden von ihm erwähnten Publikationen mit den Worten: „… he thinks that Plato believes that learning is only analogous to recollection, not an instance of it. But, I think, Plato’s view is much