The Crane's Walk : : Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth / / Jeremy Barris.
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, an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: IDEAS OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
- 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
- PART II: TRUTH AND LOVE
- 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