DANIEL RUA LAMARCA

This project aims to continue a previous investigation developed during an undergraduate research project about platonic theory. Our main goal is to investigate if Plato, in his late dialogues Philebus, Sophist, Statesman, Theaetetus and Timaeus, can solve the issues for his theory shown by him in the Parmenides. As we already investigated the issues presented in the Parmenides in the undergraduate research, we plan to make them our guide, not our study object. This guide consists in four problems that challenges the theory of Forms and that should be addressed in the late dialogues: a revised theory modifies the extension of Forms, i.e., that which should receive the status of Form? Is there a new device that takes participation’s place, or is it patched instead? The inconsistencies that apparently arise for the theory are solved? And, lastly, is the possibility of knowledge salvaged, i.e., is the theory saved by the means of something that avoids the fatal blow delivered by the Separation principle?