Commentary On Nails

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1):102-109 (2013)
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Abstract

In this commentary on D. Nails, “Two Dogmas of Platonism,” I focus on her arguments for the claim that the Good is not the unhypothetical principle of everything in Plato’s Republic. I first examine what it would mean for any principle to be an unhypothetical principle of everything, and argue that Nails equivocates in her construal of this role. I then argue that Plato’s references to the unhypothetical principle should not be read to refer to a single, unique item, but to each Form F in its role as the cause of a F phenomena.

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