SELF-REFUTATION, SELF-PREDICATION AND SELF-REFERENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO Cover Image

САМООТРИЦАНИЕ, САМОПРЕДИКАЦИЯ, САМОРЕФЕРЕНТНОСТЬ В ФИЛОСОФИИ ПЛАТОНА
SELF-REFUTATION, SELF-PREDICATION AND SELF-REFERENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO

Author(s): Vsevolod Ladov
Subject(s): Ancient Philosphy, Analytic Philosophy
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Protagoras; Plato; Aristotle; truth; relativism; idea; Third Man Argument; Russell; paradox;

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of self-reference combines self-refutation (the principle of peritrope) in the case of Plato’s critics of Protagoras in “Theaetetus” and self predication in the case of a difficulty which Plato himself faces developing the theory of ideas in “Parmenides”. The author of the article asserts that self-predication does not produce a negative impact on Plato’s metaphysics and in no way destroys the integrality of Plato’s philosophy: It is logically correct as are both his criticism of Protagoras’ relativism (by means of the principle of peritrope) and the theory of ideas (in which the phenomenon of self-predication is also proposed).

  • Issue Year: XII/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 90-98
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian