Studies in Plato's Metaphysics by Reginald Edgar Allen

Author:Reginald Edgar Allen [Allen, Reginald Edgar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415591942
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-15T20:44:11+00:00

‘For here some αἲσθησις is required to see that μία ἰδέα stretches through from beginning to end.’

2 Cf. Parm., 145b 8.

3 This is not to reject C. Ritter's contention (Neue Untersuchungen über Platon (1910), 57 ff.) that διατέτασθαι refers to the μέγιστα γένη, like Otherness which is διὰ πάντων διεληλνθυι̑αν, and περιέχεσθαι to the species of ordinary genera—though 250b 8 is against it.

4 Plato's final interest, even in the Parm. passages, is not (pace Cornford, Plato and Parmenides, 179 ff.) in infinite divisibility, but in a whole, i.e. genus, which is, and yet is more than, its parts. Cf. Tht., 201e–205e with Ar. Met., 1041b 9–33 and the neglected passage, Hipp. Maj., 300–2, which looks to me like a set piece of the Academy's Ideal theory.

5 του̑το δ’ ἒστιν, ᾑ̑ τε κοινωνει̑ν ἓκαστα δύναται, καὶ ὃπῃ μή, διακρίνειν κατὰ γένος ἐπίστασθαι.

1 Budé edition, ad loc.

2 Pol., 262b 6–7; 265a 4. The reason is not that which a nominalist logic would give, viz. the exhaustiveness of a class-concept and its contradictory (although this doubtless influenced him in practice, especially in the Sophist), for a negative class is likely to be ἂπειρον (cf. Pol., 262d); cf. Ar. Met., 990b 13 and Ross ad loc. (Platonists’ denial of Ideas of negations).

1 Ar. Phys, 213b 22; Met., 1091a 17; fr. 201 (Rose).

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