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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Inquiry, Forms, and Substances
    sub title: A Study in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology
  name:
    name part: Blackson, Thomas A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages)
  abstract: This book offers a sympathetic explanation of the origin of the Theory of Forms that is true both to the dialogues and to Plato's place in history. The author's explanation makes the development of Plato's thought part of an intellectual and philosophical history that begins in the pre-Socratic period, extends through Socrates and the Sophists, and continues into the twentieth century. The explanation provides a unified reading of three passages that scholars have long recognized as keys to Plato's thought about the Forms, but which have proved stubbornly resistant to interpretation, both individually and as a group: (i) the intellectual autobiography in the Phaedo; (ii) the discussion of the philosopher and the lover of spectacles in the Republic; and (iii) the discussion of starting points, the Receptacle, and the four kinds of stuff in the Timaeus. The book will be of special interest to scholars of ancient philosophy, it will also be of interest to philosophers in general, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students.
  note: by Thomas A. Blackson.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, classical
  subject:
    topic: Genetic epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  classification: B108-708
  classification: 180
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophical studies series ; 62
  identifier: 9789401102810 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401102813 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789401041249
  identifier: 9401041245
  identifier: 9401102813
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422200352.3
    record identifier: in00003551775
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng