1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006554890403321

Autore

Gilbert, Pierre

Titolo

Dictionnaire des mots contemporains / Pierre Gilbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Le Robert, 1991

Descrizione fisica

XXVI, 739 p. 23x11 cm

Collana

Les usuels du Robert

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XV FB 110

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970649003321

Autore

Barris Jeremy

Titolo

The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / / Jeremy Barris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612698835

9780823246717

082324671X

9780823235674

082323567X

9781282698833

1282698834

9780823238354

0823238350

9780823229154

0823229157

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 359 p. )

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Truth

Certainty

Pluralism



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- INTRODUCTORY -- IDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else) -- IDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions -- IDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric -- IDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages -- IDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth -- IDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality -- IDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought -- IDEA 8 Mixture and Purity -- CHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview -- CHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love -- CHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct -- CONCLUSION The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this pluralism is important in its own right, whether or not we agree about what Plato's standpoint is.The longest tradition of Plato scholarship identifies crucial faults in Plato's theory of Ideas. Barris argues that Plato deliberately displayed those faults, because he wanted to demonstrate that basic kinds of error or illogic have dimensions that are crucial to the establishing of truth. These dimensions legitimate a paradoxical coordination of logically incompatible conceptions of truth. Connecting this idea with emerging currents of Plato scholarship, he emphasizes, in addition to the dialogues' arguments, the importance of their nonargumentative features, including drama, myths, fictions, anecdotes, and humor. These unanalyzed nonargumentative features function rigorously, as a lever with which to examine the enterprise of rational argument itself, without presupposing its standards or illegitimately assimilating any position to the standards of another.Today, communities are torn apart by conflicts within and between a host of different pluralist and absolutist commitments. The possibility developed in this book-a coordination of absolute and relative truth that allows an understanding of some relativist and some absolutist positions as being fully legitimate and as capable of existing in a relation to their opposites-may contribute to perspectives for resolving these conflicts.