TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerson,Lloyd P.
TI  - Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy
SN  - 9781501747274
AV  - B395 
U1  - 184 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Plato-Influence
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Platonism and Naturalism -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Plato's Rejection of Naturalism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Platonism vs. Naturalism -- 2.1. What Is Platonism? -- 2.2. What Is Naturalism? -- 2.3. Methodological, Philosophical Naturalism -- 2.4. A Rapprochement? -- 3. Plato's Critique of Naturalism -- 3.1. Some Hermeneutical Assumptions -- 3.2. The Turn from Naturalism to Metaphysics -- 3.3. Socrates's "Autobiography" in Phaedo -- 3.4. Republic on the Subject Matter of Philosophy -- 3.5. Theaetetus and Sophist on the Subject Matter of Philosophy -- 4. Plato on Being and Knowing -- 4.1. Forms as Explanatory Entities -- 4.2. Eternity and Time -- 4.3. Nominalism and Its Connection to Relativism -- 4.4. The Nature and the Possibility of Knowledge -- 4.5. Some Exigencies of Knowledge and Belief -- 5. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (1) -- 5.1. The Idea of the Good, Unhypothetical First Principle of All -- 5.2. First Principles in Parmenides -- 5.3. First Principles in Sophist -- 5.4. First Principles in Philebus -- 5.5. First Principles in Timaeus -- 5.6. Aristotle's Account of First Principles in Plato -- 6. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (2) -- 6.1. The Form of the Good and the Idea of the Good -- 6.2. Virtue, Knowledge, and the Good -- 6.3. Platonic Ethics without the Idea of the Good -- 6.4. The Good, Ethical Prescriptions, and Integrative Unity -- 6.5. Eros and the Good -- Part 2. The Platonic Project -- 7. Aristotle the Platonist -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Aristotle on the Subject Matter of Philosophy -- 7.3. The Immateriality of Thought -- 7.4. The Causality of the First Principle -- 8. Plotinus the Platonist -- 8.1. The Platonic System -- 8.2. Critique of Stoicism -- 8.3. Platonic and Stoic Wisdom -- 9. Proclus and Trouble in Paradise; 9.1. The Dynamics of the Platonic System -- 9.2. A Crack in the System? -- 9.3. Damascius -- 10. Concluding Reflections -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum
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