Parmenides and the Metaphysics of Plato's Theory of Forms
FAIN: FA-12376-78
Alexander Nehamas
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
To examine the metaphysics of Plato's theory of Forms and to consider that theory as a response to a number of metaphysical problems in Greek philosophy. PI will show that this theory is the first systematic attempt in western philosophy to articulate the notion of predication.