PPT-Introduction to Plato’s Metaphysics

Plato 428348 BCE Athens Greece Student of Socrates teacher of Aristotle Founded the Academy No fees but exclusive No set curriculum but a method of inquiry Pose a problem and inquire through dialectic. What is metaphysics? It is distinguished, in part, from physics and other branches of science by the a priori character of its methods.  e claims of science rest on observation; the claims of metaphy What is metaphysics?. . metaphysics. m. eta-. a prefix added to the name of a subject and designating another subject that analyzes the original one but at a more abstract, higher level.. Philosophy 224. Plato (428-347 . BCE). Plato was from an old aristocratic family in Athens. . Many of the important people of his time appear as characters in his dialogues.. As a young man, Plato was greatly interested in philosophy and politics. He was a friend and companion of Socrates. After the death of Socrates, he fled Athens.. Ronald F. White, Ph.D.. Professor of Philosophy. College of Mount St. Joseph. Introduction. Historical Background. Greek City-States. Athens v. Sparta. Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) . The Thirty. Pre-Socratic Philosophy. By Ahmad . Qazi. Aristotle. Allocation of scarce resources was a moral issue to . Aristotle.  in book I of his . Politics. , Aristotle expresses that consumption was the objective of . production. surplus should be allocated to the rearing of children. The Philosophers Approach to Metaphysics. What is Metaphysics?. Metaphysics is the study of the basic structures of reality:. Being and nothingness, time and eternity, freedom and determinism, mind and body, . : . on the way to transcendental metaphysics. . Serguei. L. . Katrechko. . . Moscow, Russia, . skatrechko@gmail.com. . http. ://. www.facebook.com/skatrechko. . http://philosophy.ru/library/katr/. DR. IDA BAIZURA BAHAR. GREEK CRITICISM:. Plato. Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece. . He . was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. . DR. IDA BAIZURA BAHAR. GREEK CRITICISM:. ARISTOTLE. Philosopher. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. . Born: 384 BC, Stagira. Died: 322 BC, Chalcis. 2. Herodotus c.495-425. 3. Aeschylus 525-456. 4. Plato 427-347. 5. Plato is not being impolite. 6. protagonist. The leader or principal person in a movement, cause or narrative. 7. transcendent. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding. . Philosophy in Ancient Greece * Presocratic Philosophers *From Socrates to Plato *Aristotle and the Fall of Athens Ancient Greece Network of City-States Athens (named for Athena): Birthplace of Philo- H. . Rauer. (DLR PF). H. Kinter/A. Salado. (Kayser-Threde). 2. Activities. . Mission selection in Feb. 2014. Payload . industrial management is being assigned for “bridging period” and B1 Phase to . 454d or Timaeus 29c), and although he occasionally uses 1 Categories; de interpretatione; prior analytics; posterior analytics; topics; sophistical refutations; physics (10 books); on the heavens; on generation and decay; meteorology; on the soul; on th