The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo

ISBN-13: 9781108930871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str.

John Palmer

Opis

Explores the impact of the governing method of hypothesis in Plato's Phaedo on the dialogues' arguments for the soul's immortality.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The inconclusive character of the Phaedo's arguments; 3. The dialectical function of the method of hypothesis; 4. Dialectical progression in the discussion of suicide; 5. The dialectical function of the cyclical arguments; 6. The recollection argument's introduction of the Forms hypothesis; 7. The turn to the nature of soul in the affinity argument; 8. Soul as substance in Socrates' response to Simmias; 9. Toward the nature of soul in the final argument; 10. Justified belief on the way to first principles; 11. Mythologia and the Philosophic Life.