Essays on Being
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 September 2012
- ISBN 9780199654352
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 215x144x16 mm
- Weight 374 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this series of essays published over forty years Charles Kahn explicates the ancient Greek concept of Being. His linguistic aim of explaining the meaning of the verb einai is intertwined with his historical and philosophical project of understanding how the concept came to be central to Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle.
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This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems, one linguistic and one historical and philosophical. The linguistic problem concerns the theory of the Greek verb einai, 'to be': how to replace the conventional but misleading distinction between copula and existential verb with a more adequate theoretical account. The philosophical problem is in principle quite distinct: to understand how the concept of Being became the central topic in Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle. But these two problems converge on what Kahn calls the veridical use of einai. In the earlier papers he takes that connection between the verb and the concept of truth to be the key to the central role of Being in Greek philosophy. In the later papers he interprets the veridical in terms of a more general semantic function of the verb, which comprises the notions of existence and instantiation as well as truth.
Review from previous edition always engaging and often provocative
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Greek verb 'to be' and the concept of Being
The terminology for copula and existence
Why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in Greek philosophy
Some philosophical uses of 'to be' in Plato
A return to the verb 'to be' and the concept of Being
The thesis of Parmenides
Being in Parmenides and Plato
Parmenides and Plato once more
Postscript on Parmenides: Parmenides and physics. The direction of the chariot ride in the proem. The epistemic preference for Fire.
