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- Plato’s Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
Students of Plato and other ancient philosophers divide philosophy into three parts: Ethics, Epistemology and Metaphysics While generally accurate and certainly useful for pedagogical purposes, no rigid boundary separates the parts
- Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Which raises a question—is there any common feature that unites the problems of contemporary metaphysics? The final two sections discuss some recent theories of the nature and methodology of metaphysics We will also consider arguments that metaphysics, however defined, is an impossible enterprise
- Platonism in Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Plato’s idea is that our immaterial souls acquired knowledge of abstract objects before we were born and that mathematical learning is really just a process of coming to remember what we knew before we were born
- Aristotle’s Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as ‘metaphysics’; the name was evidently coined by the first century C E editor who assembled the treatise we know as Aristotle’s Metaphysics out of various smaller selections of Aristotle’s works
- Plato’s Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology gt; Notes (Stanford . . .
Notes to Plato’s Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology 1 Finer discriminations are possible There are, I suspect, transitional dialogues between these broad periods and probably between clusters of dialogues that might make up sub-groups within each period
- Method and Metaphysics in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman
The Sophist and Statesman show the author’s increasing interest in mundane and practical knowledge In this respect they seem more down-to-earth and Aristotelian in tone than dialogues dated to Plato’s middle period such as the Phaedo and the Republic This entry will focus on method and metaphysics
- Plato (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Plato (429?–347 B C E ) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy
- Metaphysical Explanation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
It might seem to, given a traditional conception of metaphysics as studying the “first causes of things” (see the entry on metaphysics) And yet, it appears to work solely thanks to certain causal facts
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