LEADER 03014nam 2200553 450 001 9910796873403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-11-060148-6 010 $a3-11-060186-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110601862 035 $a(CKB)4100000004244579 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5402231 035 $a(DE-B1597)495115 035 $a(OCoLC)1037979355 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110601862 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5402231 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11568243 035 $a(PPN)22729193X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004244579 100 $a20180627d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlato's forms, mathematics and astronomy /$fTheokritos Kouremenos 210 1$aBoston ;$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (152 pages) 225 1 $aTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ;$vVolume 67 311 $a3-11-060143-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Platonic Forms as Forms only of Mathematical Objects -- $t2. Plato on Astronomy and Philosophy -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of passages 330 $aPlato's view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics and philosophy as Plato conceived them by proposing that in his view, although it is philosophy that came up with the concept of beings, which he calls forms, and highlighted their importance, first to natural philosophy and then to ethics, the things that do qualify as beings are inchoately revealed by mathematics as the raw materials that must be further processed by philosophy (mathematicians, to use Plato's simile in the Euthedemus, do not invent the theorems they prove but discover beings and, like hunters who must hand over what they catch to chefs if it is going to turn into something useful, they must hand over their discoveries to philosophers). Even those forms that do not bear names of mathematical objects, such as the famous forms of beauty and goodness, are in fact forms of mathematical objects. The first chapter is an attempt to defend this thesis. The second argues that for Plato philosophy's crucial task of investigating the exfoliation of the forms into the sensible world, including the sphere of human private and public life, is already foreshadowed in one of its branches, astronomy. 410 0$aTrends in classics.$pSupplementary volumes ;$vVolume 67. 606 $aAstronomy 610 $aPlato. 610 $aastronomy. 610 $aforms. 610 $amathematics. 615 0$aAstronomy. 676 $a184 700 $aKouremenos$b Theokritos$0663767 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796873403321 996 $aPlato's forms, mathematics and astronomy$93686654 997 $aUNINA