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Ideas of Alexander Nehamas, by Text

[American, b.1946, Taught by Gregory Vlastos. Professor at Princeton University.]

1984 Episteme and Logos in later Plato
p.234 p.234 The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects
p.234 p.234 A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object
1999 Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'
p.xvi p.-21 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge'
p.xxvii p.-10 Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible
p.xxviii p.-9 Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness