In Dialogue with the Greeks

Volume II: Plato and Dialectic

Rush Rhees, D.Z. Phillips, Professor D. Z. Phillips , Dr. Mario von der Ruhr

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Routledge
22 October 2004

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Series: Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies

This second of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees takes up the questions bequeathed by the previous volume. If reality does not have the unity of a thing, can it have any kind of unity at all? The alternative seems to be that reality has the unity of a form. In this volume Rhees brings the perspective of a modern Wittgensteinian philosopher to bear on the dialogues of Plato. In his treatment of the Georgias and the Symposium Rhees emphasizes Socrates' claim that it is important to seek understanding although one cannot say, in the form of a theory or philosophical thesis, what that understanding amounts to. In considering the Phaedo, Theaetetus, Parmenides and Timaeus, Rhees pursues these questions in a way which relates them to live issues concerning the relation between logic and discourse. Rhees shows that Plato's forms can neither be thought of by analogy with 'ultimate' particles in physics, nor as fixed concepts which determine what can and cannot be said. Finally, D. Z. Phillips includes two treatments by Rhees of the Republic separated by fifteen years. In the first he criticises Plato for a fixed view that an order predetermines and makes possible growth in understanding, showing how this is the very antithesis of growth. In the second he returns to the tension in Plato's thought between 'answerability to reality' and the view that understanding and growth can only be achieved through a seeking in dialogue. Rhees concludes that language is not a collection of isolated games, rather we speak in the course of lives that we lead and what we say has its meaning from the place it occupies in the course of a life.

By: Rush Rhees
Edited by: D.Z. Phillips
Series edited by: Professor D. Z. Phillips, Dr. Mario von der Ruhr
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: v. 2
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9780754639893
ISBN 10: 0754639894
Series: Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 October 2004
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rush Rhees (1905 - 1989) was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and one of his literary executors. He devoted much of his life to editing his work. Rhees taught philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1940 to 1966, where he subsequently became an Honorary Professor and Fellow. Among his teachers he included John Anderson, Alfred Kastil, G. E. Moore and, above all, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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In Dialogue with the Greeks

Volume II: Plato and Dialectic

Rush Rhees, D.Z. Phillips, Professor D. Z. Phillips , Dr. Mario von der Ruhr

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