Plato's revision of his doctrine of forms in the dialogue Parmenides

• Grant number: 19/20698-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2019
• End date: August 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Grantee: Daniel Rua Lamarca
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/05317-8 - Theories of causation and human agency in ancient Greek philosophy, AP.TEM

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate an important topic in Platos philosophy, namely to study the criticism of the Doctrine of Forms as exposed in Plato's dialogue Parmenides. There are four topics (or problems) to be examined: (a) the problem of the range of Ideas; (b) the very notion of participation; (c) the thesis on there being only one Idea for each well-formed group of sensible things, in terms of the claims of (I) hen epipollôn (one-over-many), (II) non-identity, and (III) separation /self-predication/self-exhibition; and finally the issue on the relations between the two worlds as illustrated by the example of Master and Slave.