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Forms and Concepts

Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition

Christoph Helmig author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:13th Dec '12

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Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato’s innatist approach and Aristotle’s much more empirical response. The primary aim is to analyze and assess the strategies with which Platonists responded to Aristotle’s (and Alexander of Aphrodisias’) rival theory. The monograph culminates in a careful reconstruction of the elaborate attempt undertaken by the Neoplatonist Proclus (6th century AD) to devise a systematic Platonic theory of concept acquisition.

"It is books like this one that are, in my opinion, revitalizing the study of the major works of the canon of ancient philosophy."Lloyd Gerson in: BMCR 2013.05.19

ISBN: 9783110266313

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 816g

407 pages