WHOLE-PART DILEMMA: A COMPOSITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF PLATO’S THEORY OF FORMS

• Authors: Park Seong Soo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I suggest a way of resolving the whole-part dilemma suggested in the Parmenides. Specifically, I argue that grabbing the second horn of the dilemma does not pose a significant challenge. To argue for this, I consider two theses about Forms, namely, the oneness and indivisibility theses. More specifically, I argue that the second horn does not violate the oneness thesis if we treat composition as identity and that the indivisibility thesis ought to be reinterpreted given Plato’s later dialogues. By doing so, I suggest a compositional understanding of Plato’s theory of Forms, which can resolve the whole-part dilemma.

Keywords

EN

PLATO; PARMENIDES; THEORY OF FORMS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 246 – 267

Contributors

author

Park Seong Soo

• Department of Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Sungkyunkwan-ro 25- 2, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7403-6343

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29204