Predication and Forms of Opposites in the "Phaedo"

Review of Metaphysics 26 (3):461 - 491 (1973)
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Abstract

The Phaedo, despite the central role which the theory of Forms occupies there, gives us little explicit information. We meet with stock examples and with generalizations like "everything which belongs to being", "everything to which we give the mark of ‘that which is’ in our discussions", "all this sort of being". Socrates postulates the existence of the beautiful itself, the good itself, the large itself, and "all the rest", and he explains the beauty of beautiful things by appealing to their participation in beauty, stressing that he means that for "everything".

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Alexander Nehamas
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