Plato's late ontology : a riddle resolved /
by Kenneth M. Sayre.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, (c)1983.
- x, 328 pages ; 22 cm
Chapter one -- Plato's break with the middle period -- A Battery of problems in Parmenides I -- The Architectonic of Parmenides II -- Taking sides in an Ancient controversy -- Chapter two --Historical glimpses at the emerging theory -- Plato's So called unwritten teaching -- Aristotle's description of Plato's Ontology -- The great and (the ) small. -- Looking ahead to the Philebus. -- Chapter three -- The Philebus and the good -- A gift of the Gods -- Limit and the unlimited -- The constitution of forms and objects --Unity as the good --Plato's final theory of forms -- Appendix A -- Knowledge and ontology in the intermediate dialogues -- Early developments in the ontology of knowledge -- Becoming in the Theaetetus -- The ontology of knowledge in the Sohphist -- A story about participation in the Timaeus -- Appendix B -- On the stylometric dating of the Timaeus and the Parmenides -- Appendix C -- Comparison of the present interpretation with Gosling's by Gosling's criteria.