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5Reason and the Good in Plato’s RepublicIn David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr, Springer Verlag. pp. 135-158. 2024.Let me begin with some of the background worries that motivate the paper. First, for years I have been working on the relation of the Timaeus to the Republic guided by this triple analogy: as the demiurge is to the cosmos, so the philosopher-ruler is to the polis, so reason is to the soul or individual. The key claim is Tim. 29e: the demiurge is good and so wants to make everything it makes like it itself is, i.e., good, as good as possible. I take the demiurge to be reason idealized, so I infer…Read more
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5Chapter four. Refining the theory of formsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 104-136. 2009.
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5Plato's Cratylus: The Naming of Nature and the Nature of NamingIn Julia Annas (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume X: 1992, Clarendon Press. pp. 25-71. 1992.
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3Plato: PsychologyIn Christopher Shields (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Phaedo Middle Period Dialogues Later Dialogues References and Recommended Reading.
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1Chapter five. Forms and languageIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 137-181. 2009.
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1The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's MetaphysicsPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (220): 507-510. 2005.
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1NotesIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 311-366. 2009.
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1Chapter seven. The nature of material particularsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 218-284. 2009.
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1ConclusionIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 285-298. 2009.
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1Studies in Plato's Theory of KnowledgeDissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1985.In this thesis I offer a reconstruction of some of the foundations of Plato's Theory of Knowledge. This effort is based upon two Platonic theses: Thought is Language and The objects of different faculties of the soul are distinct. The thesis is an investigation of the inter-relation of these two claims. I argue that the former does not prompt Plato to abandon the latter, the so-called Two Worlds hypothesis of the Republic, but rather serves as a justification of that hypothesis. In the first cha…Read more
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AppendixIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 299-310. 2009.
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IntroductionIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-12. 2009.
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BibliographyIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 367-378. 2009.
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Chapter three. The emergence of formsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 49-103. 2009.
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Index LocorumIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 379-386. 2009.
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Chapter six. Not-beingsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 182-217. 2009.
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ContentsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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PrefaceIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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General IndexIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 387-393. 2009.
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Chapter one. An overview of platonic metaphysicsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 13-27. 2009.
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Chapter two. Socratic metaphysics?In The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 28-48. 2009.
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