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In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson contends that Platonism identifies philosophy with a distinct subject matter, namely, the intelligible world and seeks to show that the Naturalist rejection of Platonism entails the elimination of a distinct subject matter for philosophy. Thus, the possibility of philosophy depends on the truth of Platonism. From Aristotle to Plotinus to Proclus, Gerson clearly links the construction of the Platonic system well beyond simply Plato's dialogues, providing strong evidence of the vast impact of Platonism on philosophy throughout history. Platonism and Naturalism concludes that attempts to seek a rapprochement between Platonism and Naturalism are unstable and likely indefensible.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2020
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EAN13	9781501747267
Langue	English
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Platonism and Naturalism

PlatonismandNaturalism

ThePossibilityofPhilosophy

LloydP.Gerson

CornellUniversityPress

IthacaandLondon

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First published2020by Cornell University Press

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Names: Gerson, Lloyd P., author. Title:Platonismandnaturalism:thepossibilityofphilosophy/Lloyd P.Gerson. Description:1st edition. | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press,2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiers: LCCN2019018748(print) | LCCN2019019427(ebook) | ISBN9781501747267(pdf) | ISBN9781501747274(epub/mobi) | ISBN9781501747250| ISBN9781501747250(cloth) Subjects:LCSH:PlatoInuence.|Platonists.|Naturalism.Classication: LCC B395(ebook) | LCC B395.G472019(print) | DDC184dc23LC record available at.goc/ovsl:ct/p/.hltcn2019018748

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Part 1. Plato’s Rejection of Naturalism

1. Introduction2. Platonism vs. Naturalism2.1.WhatIsPlatonism?15 2.2. What Is Naturalism? 22 2.3.Methodological,PhilosophicalNaturalism29 2.4.ARapprochement?32 3. Plato’s Critique of Naturalism3.1.SomeHermeneuticalAssumptions38 3.2.TheTurnfromNaturalismtoMetaphysics43 3.3.Socrates’s“Autobiography”inPhaedo48 3.4.Republicon the Subject Matter of Philosophy65 3.5.TheaetetusandSophiston the Subject Matter of Philosophy71 4. Plato on Being and Knowing4.1.FormsasExplanatoryEntities76 4.2.EternityandTime88 4.3.NominalismandItsConnectiontoRelativism99 4.4.TheNatureandthePossibilityofKnowledge108 4.5.SomeExigenciesofKnowledgeandBelief116

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5. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (1)5.1.TheIdeaoftheGood,UnhypotheticalFirstPrincipleofAll120 5.2.FirstPrinciplesinParmenides127 5.3.FirstPrinciplesinSophist135 5.4.FirstPrinciplesinPhilebus147 5.5.FirstPrinciplesinTimaeus152 5.6.Aristotle’sAccountofFirstPrinciplesinPlato155 6. The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (2)6.1.TheFormoftheGoodandtheIdeaoftheGood163 6.2.Virtue,Knowledge,andtheGood173 6.3.PlatonicEthicswithouttheIdeaoftheGood179 6.4.TheGood,EthicalPrescriptions,andIntegrativeUnity183 6.5.ErosandtheGood187

Part 2. The Platonic Project

the Platonist7. Aristotle 7.1.Introduction197 7.2.AristotleontheSubjectMatterofPhilosophy198 7.3.TheImmaterialityofThought209 7.4.TheCausalityoftheFirstPrinciple220 8. Plotinus the Platonist8.1.ThePlatonicSystem224 8.2.CritiqueofStoicism235 8.3.PlatonicandStoicWisdom240 9. Proclus and Trouble in Paradise9.1.TheDynamicsofthePlatonicSystem247 9.2.ACrackintheSystem?250 9.3.Damascius254 10. Concluding Reﬂections

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Versionsofsomeofthematerialinthisbookweredeliveredaslecturesand conference presentations at BarIlan University; Hameline University; University of California at Berkeley; Temple University; Durham Univer sity; the International Plato Society meeting in Brasilia, Brazil; Cambridge University; UNAM, Mexico City; Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Duquesne University; and the University of Chicago. I am grateful to the audiences at these presentations for their spirited engagement with my ar guments. Amongmycolleaguesandfriendswhohavereadallorpartsofdraftsofthis book are Francesco Fronterotta, Franco Ferrari, Brad Inwood, and Eric Perl. Their thoughtful and collegial disagreement with some of my ideas were as welcome as their warm encouragement. I am especially grateful to Nicholas D. Smith, who read the entire book and made extensive critical comments, all of which prompted me to make changes and additions (and a few tactical subtractions). I am grateful to an anonymous reader for Cor nell University Press who prompted me to clarify some highly compressed and allusive arguments. In this book, all translations are my own except where noted. TheworkwascompletedwiththegeneroussupportoftheSocialSci ences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.