AbstractsPhilosophy & Theology

Plato’s dialectic, as developed through his ethics, epistomology and ontology.

by Daniel. Oduber-Quiros




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Philosophy.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1948
Keywords: Plato.
Record ID: 1482284
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile125222.pdf


Abstract

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. [...]