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Commentary On Nails

Commentary On Nails In this commentary on D. Nails, “Two Dogmas of Platonism,” I focus on her arguments for the claim that the Good is not the unhypothetical principle of everything in Plato’s Republic . I first examine what it would mean for any principle to be an unhypothetical principle of everything , and argue that Nails equivocates in her construal of this role. I then argue that Plato’s references to the unhypothetical principle should not be read to refer to a single, unique item, but to each Form F in its role as the cause of a F phenomena. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Brill

Commentary On Nails

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Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1059-986x
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2213-4417
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10.1163/22134417-90000009
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Abstract

In this commentary on D. Nails, “Two Dogmas of Platonism,” I focus on her arguments for the claim that the Good is not the unhypothetical principle of everything in Plato’s Republic . I first examine what it would mean for any principle to be an unhypothetical principle of everything , and argue that Nails equivocates in her construal of this role. I then argue that Plato’s references to the unhypothetical principle should not be read to refer to a single, unique item, but to each Form F in its role as the cause of a F phenomena.

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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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