Dóxa and Its Ontology: Appearances in Plato's Early Dialogues

Diplôme Thèse Dóxa and Its Ontology: Appearances in Plato's Early Dialogues eng 2021-09-06 2021-09-06 author Natali Paolo 800416 director Crivelli Paolo 758299 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:155109 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1551098 L. 1027 The thesis argues that a basic ontology of dóxa and appearances (and more in general mental episodes) can be gleaned from a careful analysis of Plato's early dialogues. To this aim, the first part (chapter 1) discusses the main issues concerning Plato's language of dóxa and appearances, both from the linguistic and from the philosophical point of view, and argues that dóxa is best understood as judgement. The second part develops a three-stage argument: chapter 2 argues that dóxa and appearances are for Plato affections (páthe); chapter 3 that affections are for Plato fundamentally relational events; chapter 4 that, therefore, appearances are for Plato fundamentally relational events. The third and last part (chapter 5) investigates Plato's ontology of evaluative appearances (and desire) by focussing on the interplay between the ontology of appearances and the ontology of values (“goods and evils”) as one can extract it from the dialogue Gorgias. The three parts are secluded within a general introduction and conclusions. Four appendices complement the thesis with: a philosophical glossary of mental events; a table of frequencies of terms for mental episodes in the Platonic corpus; a list of all the occurrences of 'phaínomai' and 'dokéo' in the early dialogues; and a semi-formal appendix discussing the logical form of Plato's statements about metaphysical explanations. Plato Appearance Ontology Pathos Affection Πάθος Φαίνομαι Δοκέω Δόξα Appearance and reality Early dialogues Doxa Seeming Belief Judgement Epistemology Philosophy of mind Ancient philosophy Mental events Relational events De re attitudes Ontology of the mind Metaphysical explanation Dewey 100/501 89 Département de philosophie 3G false 1341 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Research Group (AMPhi) 901 eidos - the Centre for Metaphysics b748e0b1-2e2c-44c1-97b0-a2b8193afaee Thesis Private PaoloNatali_Doxa.pdf 4983840 application/pdf 70c8897d2bb7b77dda172ecaca73576982b2c9cfc5179aec67d80972ba549a8c closedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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