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Colloquium 3: Two Dogmas Of Platonism

Colloquium 3: Two Dogmas Of Platonism Contemporary platonism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is the belief in a fundamental cleavage between intelligible but invisible Platonic forms that are real and eternal, and perceptible objects whose confinement to spacetime constitutes an inferior existence and about which knowledge is impossible. The other dogma involves a kind of reductionism: the belief that Plato’s unhypothetical first principle of the all is identical to the form of the good. Both dogmas, I argue, are ill-founded. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Brill

Colloquium 3: Two Dogmas Of Platonism

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Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1059-986x
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10.1163/22134417-90000008
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Contemporary platonism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is the belief in a fundamental cleavage between intelligible but invisible Platonic forms that are real and eternal, and perceptible objects whose confinement to spacetime constitutes an inferior existence and about which knowledge is impossible. The other dogma involves a kind of reductionism: the belief that Plato’s unhypothetical first principle of the all is identical to the form of the good. Both dogmas, I argue, are ill-founded.

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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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