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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewApolloni's work on one of the most important issues in Plato's philosophy is admirably clear and insightful, despite the density and tedium of much recent scholarship on the topic. Apolloni cuts through the fog to make sense of complex and problematic material with a fresh interpretation of his own. This is a solid contribution to Plato scholarship. -- Duane L. Cady, Hamline University
Apolloni’s dense and well-documented study of this question in the contemporary secondary literature aims to shows that Plato has a way to avoid embracing self-predication such that it does not threaten the coherence of a theory of separate Forms. Along the way, he offers extensive treatment of the contemporary literature regarding self- predication and related matters. A graduate student wishing for an efficient means of getting up to speed on the main lines of the more than half a century of interpretation generated by Gregory Vlastos’s famous 1954 article would be well served by this book. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Self-Predication Assumption in the Phaedo and in Alexander's Peri Ideon Chapter 1: The Argument from Equal Sticks and Stones in the Phaedo Chapter 2: The Argument from Relative Terms Chapter 3: Eponymy and Being in the Phaedo and the Sophist Part II. The Parmenides Chapter 4: Young Socrates' Challenge to Parmenides Chapter 5: The First "Third Man" Chapter 6: What is Participation? Chapter 7: Parmenides' Exercise and the Sophist
