Plato’s dialectic, as developed through his ethics, epistomology and ontology.
Institution: | McGill University |
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Department: | Department of Philosophy. |
Degree: | MA. |
Year: | 1948 |
Keywords: | Plato. |
Record ID: | 1482284 |
Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile125222.pdf |
Platonic Philosophy as a whole is a movement upwards. It is the approach to an ideal, to an absolute end which exists of its own right. It does not offer a system in which all the component ideas are located in a specific place, and it does not force us to study these separately and then bring them together into an artificial whole. We can consider Plato's Philosophy from different points of view: his Ethics, his Epistemology, or his Politics, but every one of these points of view is so concerned and intermingled with the rest that an isolation of one of them is, strictly speacking, impossible. [...]