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Being and Not-Being

An Introduction to Plato’s Sophist

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Approach to Plato

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 1-4

  3. Parmenides, Plato and the Sophists

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 5-11

  4. The seventh Division and the Statement of the Problem: 233D–237B

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 12-14

  5. Absolute Not-being: 237B–239C

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 15-16

  6. The Being of Images: 239C–240C

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 17-19

  7. False Logos and the Challenge to Parmenides: 240C–242B

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 20-21

  8. Being — the Pluralists: 242B–244B

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 22-24

  9. Being — the Monists (Parmenides): 244B–245E

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 25-29

  10. Being — Materialists and Idealists: 245E–248A

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 30-32

  11. Being, Forms and Motion: 248A–249D

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 33-40

  12. Can we define Being?: 249D–251A

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 41-43

  13. The Communion of Forms and the “Late Learners”: 251A–252E

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 44-51

  14. Dialectic and Meta-dialectic: 252E–254B

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 52-54

  15. The very great Kinds — Introduction: 254B-D

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 55-57

  16. The very great Kinds — Part 1: 254D–255E

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 58-63

  17. Comment on Part 1

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 64-72

  18. The very great Kinds — Part 2: 255E–251A

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 73-77

  19. Motion and Rest once more: 256B6-C4

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 78-80

  20. The Not-Beautiful, the Not-Just and the Not-Tall: 257B–258C

    • Paul Seligman
    Pages 81-84
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About this book

The present monograph on Plato's Sophist developed from series of lectures given over a number of years to honours and graduate phi­ 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 pub­ 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 trans­ 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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Being and Not-Being

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Plato’s Sophist

  • Authors: Paul Seligman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2012-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1580-0Published: 30 June 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2012-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 132

  • Topics: Ontology, Classical Philosophy, Philosophy, general

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