Author	Seligman, Paul. author
Title	Being and Not-Being [electronic resource] : An Introduction to Plato's Sophist / by Paul Seligman
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1974
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2012-1
Descript	132 p. online resource

The present monograph on Plato's Sophist developed from series of lectures given over a number of years to honours and graduate phiยญ losophy classes in the University of Waterloo. It is hoped that it will prove a useful guide to anyone trying to come to grips with, and gain a perspective of Plato's mature thought. At the same time my study is addressed to the specialist, and I have considered at the appropriate places a good deal of the scholarly literature that has appeared during the last thirty years. In this connection I regret that some of the pubยญ lications which came to my notice after my work was substantially completed (such as KamIah's and Sayre's) have not been referred to in my discussion. As few philosophy students nowadays are familiar with Greek I have (except in a few footnotes) translated as well as transliterated all Greek terms. Citations from Plato's text follow Cornford's admirable transยญ lation as closely as possible, though the reader will find some significant deviations. The most notable of these concerns the key word on which I have rendered throughout as "being," thus avoiding Cornford's "existence" and "reality" which tend to prejudge the issues which the dialogue raises

ยง 1 Approach to Plato -- ยง 2 Parmenides, Plato and the Sophists -- ยง 3 The seventh Division and the Statement of the Problem: 233Dโ237B -- ยง 4 Absolute Not-being: 237Bโ239C -- ยง 5 The Being of Images: 239Cโ240C -- ยง 6 False Logos and the Challenge to Parmenides: 240Cโ242B -- ยง 7 Being โ the Pluralists: 242Bโ244B -- ยง 8 Being โ the Monists (Parmenides): 244Bโ245E -- ยง 9 Being โ Materialists and Idealists: 245Eโ248A -- ยง 10 Being, Forms and Motion: 248Aโ249D -- ยง 11 Can we define Being?: 249Dโ251A -- ยง 12 The Communion of Forms and the โLate Learnersโ: 251Aโ 252E -- ยง 13 Dialectic and Meta-dialectic: 252Eโ254B -- ยง 14 The very great Kinds โ Introduction: 254BโD -- ยง 15 The very great Kinds โ Part 1: 254Dโ255E -- ยง 16 Comment on Part -- ยง 17 The very great Kinds โ Part 2: 255Eโ257A -- ยง 18 Motion and Rest once more: 256B6-C4 -- ยง 19 The Not-Beautiful, the Not-Just and the Not-Tall: 257Bโ258C -- ยง 20 The very great Kinds โ Conclusion: 258Cโ259D -- ยง 21 The Problem of Falsity and the Possibility of Discourse: 259Dโ261C -- ยง 22 The Nature of Logos: 261Cโ262E -- ยง 23 True and False: 262Eโ263D -- ยง 24 The Being of false Logos

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