Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics
- ISBN 13:
9780197577158
- ISBN 10:
0197577156
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/03/2021
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Anna Marmodoro argues that Plato is ground-breaking in the history of metaphysics, in different ways from those acknowledged so far, and with respect to more metaphysical questions than had been hitherto appreciated; e.g. Plato's treatment of structure as property; of complexity; and his introduction of the first ever account of metaphysical emergence.
In addition to these results, Marmodoro makes Anaxagoras's and Plato's systems philosophically accessible to us, today's philosophers, by applying conceptual tools from analytic metaphysics to the study of ancient metaphysics. In this way, the book brings Anaxagoras's and Plato's ideas to bear on todays' philosophical discussions and opens up new venues of research for current philosophical discussions.