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Plato and the Ideas: A Very Complicated Story
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Edited by:
André Lanoue
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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This collective volume, at the cutting edge of research, presents a wide range of perspectives on Plato's theory of Ideas. It features numerous authors whose main language of publication is not English, thus providing international readers access to a wide range of scholarly works not normally available to them. In this collective volume, to which a number of established scholars of international renown as well as young up-and-coming researchers have contributed, the Platonic theory of Ideas is examined from philological, historical, psychological, metaphysical and ethical viewpoints, presenting a boldly innovative hermeneutical impulse that meets the highest standards of contemporary research.
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André Lanoue lectured in ancient philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, at the University of Toronto and at the Université de Montréal. His publications focus on Plato’s dramaturgy, metaphysics and on ancient religion.
Arianna Fermani is a professor at the Università di Macerata. She translated Aristotle's three Ethics (Bompiani 2008) and published Aristotele e l'infinità del male (Morcelliana 2019). In 2020, she received the Italian National Award for Philosophy.
Maurizio Migliori was a professor at the Università Statale di Macerata and published extensively on the Sophists, Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle. He authored Il disordine ordinato. La filosofia dialettica di Platone (Brescia 2013).
Arianna Fermani is a professor at the Università di Macerata. She translated Aristotle's three Ethics (Bompiani 2008) and published Aristotele e l'infinità del male (Morcelliana 2019). In 2020, she received the Italian National Award for Philosophy.
Maurizio Migliori was a professor at the Università Statale di Macerata and published extensively on the Sophists, Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle. He authored Il disordine ordinato. La filosofia dialettica di Platone (Brescia 2013).
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eBook published on:
October 20, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9789004722170
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
240
eBook ISBN:
9789004722170
Keywords for this book
Ontology; Theory of Ideas; Theory of Forms; Philebus; Hippias Major; Greater Hippias; Unwritten doctrine; Soul; Laws; Philology; metaphysics
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This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of ancient philosophy, specifically Platonism.
