Forms and Concepts : Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition.

Forms and Concepts : Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition.

Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato's innatist approach and Aristotle's much more empirical response. The primary aim is to analyze and assess...

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Main Author: Helmig, Christoph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
Series:Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina.
Subjects:
Plato > v427-v347
Concepts > History.
Form > History.
Platonists.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Concepts
Platonists
Form
Konzeption
History
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Summary:Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato's innatist approach and Aristotle's much more empirical response. The primary aim is to analyze and assess the strategies with which Platonists responded to Aristotle's (and Alexander of Aphrodisias') rival theory. The monograph culminates in a careful reconstruction of the elaborate attempt undertaken by the Neoplatonist Proclus (6th century AD) to devise a systematic Platonic theory of concept acquisition.
Item Description:2.2. Neoplatonic readings of Alexander.
Physical Description:1 online resource (407 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783110267242
3110267241
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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