LEADER 04965nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910457030703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4671-X 010 $a0-8232-3567-X 010 $a1-282-69883-4 010 $a9786612698835 010 $a0-8232-3835-0 010 $a0-8232-2915-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823238354 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008078 035 $a(MH)011967626-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000435012 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11252910 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435012 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404159 035 $a(PQKB)11391158 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021300 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239459 035 $a(OCoLC)647876435 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14887 035 $a(DE-B1597)554996 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823238354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476671 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239459 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365078 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269883 035 $a(OCoLC)748361947 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476671 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008078 100 $a20080822d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe crane's walk$b[electronic resource] $ePlato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth /$fJeremy Barris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 359 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-2913-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tINTRODUCTORY -- $tIDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else) -- $tIDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions -- $tIDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric -- $tIDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages -- $tIDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth -- $tIDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality -- $tIDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought -- $tIDEA 8 Mixture and Purity -- $tCHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview -- $tCHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge -- $tCHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love -- $tCHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct -- $tCONCLUSION The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aTruth 606 $aCertainty 606 $aPluralism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTruth. 615 0$aCertainty. 615 0$aPluralism. 676 $a121 700 $aBarris$b Jeremy$01053231 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457030703321 996 $aThe crane's walk$92485029 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress