Plato (Routledge Revivals)

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Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

By John Niemeyer Findlay

Series: Routledge Revivals

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J.N. Findlay, a distinguished scholar of Plato, offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's philosophy, emphasising the presence and importance of Plato's Unwritten Doctrines as foundational to his mature written dialogues. Through careful analysis of Aristotelian and other ancient sources, Findlay elucidates these doctrines, revealing their essential role in understanding Plato's ideas properly. He challenges common interpretations, particularly the Aristotelian two-world theory, arguing instead that only the Ideas and their Principles possess full reality for Plato.

The book also explores the influence of Platonic thought on Neoplatonists, Schoolmen, and modern philosophers such as Husserl and Russell. It contains two important appendices: one with translations of ancient material on Plato's oral teachings, and another refuting Harold F. Cherniss's interpretations of the same.
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This book is ideal for advanced students and scholars of philosophy who seek a deep and nuanced understanding of Platonic thought, especially those interested in the historical interpretations and intricate doctrinal debates surrounding Plato's work.

First published in 1974, J.N. Findlay's classic work on Plato has now been re-issued.

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J.N. Findlay, distinguished scholar and acknowledged expert on Plato, argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work. With the use of Aristotelian and other writings on these reported doctrines, he demonstrates that they admit of an intelligible elucidation and they direct indispensable light upon the full meaning of the written Dialogues.

The author emphasizes the valuable use of Platonic notions and methods by the Neoplatonists and the Schoolmen, as well as by such modern thinkers as Husserl and Russell. He also censures, as a great misinterpretation, the widespread Aristotelian view of Platonism as a two-world theory, and argues that, for Plato, the Ideas and their Principles alone have full reality, everything else being logically parasitic upon them.

The work also includes two important Appendices, the first providing translations of the Aristotelian and other ancient material regarding Plato's oral teaching, the second criticising and refuting the views of Harold F. Cherniss on the same material.