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The Role of Intermediacy Plato's Republic Book VI.pdf (637.49 KB)
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The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's 'Republic' Book VI
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Clark, Colby James
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Year and Degree
2017, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
Abstract
Generally, most philosophers believe that Plato's metaphysics is entirely dualistic. Even though there exists a good deal of surface evidence that supports Plato's ties to a dualistic metalphysics, I will argue that this notion is incorrect. Instead, It appears as though Plato had a much richer sense of metaphysics and ontology, a metaphysics and ontology that supports a mathematical interface that instantiates Forms in reality. This project has three separate aims: (a) to identify what “separation” is and how it problematizes the purely dualistic conception of Plato's metaphysics, (b) to explain how Plato develops an ontological account (rooted in mathematics) that goes beyond a commonplace dualism that addresses the issues raised by the “separation” criticism, and, finally, (c) to argue that Necessity is the cause which permits and, effectively, regulates all being in the physical world (i.e. decides what is).
Committee
Gina Zavota (Advisor)
Michael Byron (Committee Member)
Deborah Barnbaum (Committee Member)
Jennifer Larson (Committee Member)
Pages
93 p.
Subject Headings
Philosophy
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Clark, C. J. (2017).
The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's 'Republic' Book VI
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492432750694099
APA Style (7th edition)
Clark, Colby.
The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's 'Republic' Book VI.
2017. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492432750694099.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Clark, Colby. "The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's 'Republic' Book VI." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492432750694099
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