TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCabe,Mary M.
TI  - Plato's Individuals
SN  - 9780691219448
U1  - 111/.82 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Individuation (Philosophy)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Recollection
KW  - accident
KW  - affinity
KW  - austere individuals
KW  - being
KW  - bundles
KW  - change
KW  - complex entities
KW  - compresence of opposites
KW  - cosmology
KW  - dialectic
KW  - dialogue form
KW  - difference
KW  - empiricism
KW  - essence
KW  - explanation
KW  - generous individuals
KW  - grammatical prejudice
KW  - identity
KW  - ignorance
KW  - interpredication
KW  - knowledge
KW  - language
KW  - lumps
KW  - methods of philosophy
KW  - natures
KW  - one over many
KW  - perception
KW  - properties
KW  - relations
KW  - sameness
KW  - separation
KW  - soul
KW  - stuff
KW  - teleology
KW  - transcendence
KW  - understanding
KW  - unity
KW  - universals
KW  - values
KW  - variables
KW  - wholes
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; One. The Problem of Individuation --; Part One. Preliminary: Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics --; Two. Particulars --; Three. Forms --; Part Two. The Problem Emerges --; Four. The One and the Others --; Five. Bundles and Lumps --; Six. Slices and Stuffs --; Seven. Being and Talking --; Part Three. Two Answers --; Eight. Resolving Relations --; Nine. The Unity of Persons --; Ten. Conclusion --; Appendix A. On the Order of the Dialogues --; Appendix B. Arguments from First Principles --; Select Bibliography --; Index Locorum --; Index of Persons --; General Index; restricted access
N2  - Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different way than did Aristotle. McCabe explores the centrality of individuation to Plato's thinking, from the Parmenides to the Politicus, illuminating Plato's later metaphysics in an exciting new way. Tradition associates Plato with the contrast between the particulars of the sensible world and transcendent forms, and supposes that therein lies the center of Plato's metaphysical universe. McCabe rebuts this view, arguing that Plato's thinking about individuals--which informs all his thought--comes to focus on the tension between "generous" or complex individuals and "austere" or simple individuals. In dialogues such as the Theaetetus and the Timaeus Plato repeatedly poses the question of individuation but cannot provide an answer. Later, in the Sophist, the Philebus, and the Politicus, Plato devises what McCabe calls the "mesh of identity," an account of how individuals may be identified relative to each other. The mesh of identity, however, fails to explain satisfactorily how individuals are unified or made coherent. McCabe asserts that individuation may be absolute--and she questions philosophy's longtime reliance on Aristotle's solution
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