Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth
    The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth
    The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth
    Ebook655 pages9 hours

    The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth

    By Jeremy Barris

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this pluralism is important in its own right, whether or not we agree about what Plato's standpoint is.

    The longest tradition of Plato scholarship identifies crucial faults in Plato's theory of Ideas. Barris argues that Plato deliberately displayed those faults, because he wanted to demonstrate that basic kinds of error or illogic have dimensions that are crucial to the establishing of truth. These dimensions legitimate a paradoxical coordination of logically incompatible conceptions of truth. Connecting this idea with emerging currents of Plato scholarship, he emphasizes, in addition to the dialogues' arguments, the importance of their nonargumentative features, including drama, myths, fictions, anecdotes, and humor. These unanalyzed nonargumentative features function rigorously, as a lever with which to examine the enterprise of rational argument itself, without presupposing its standards or illegitimately assimilating any position to the standards of another.

    Today, communities are torn apart by conflicts within and between a host of different pluralist and absolutist commitments. The possibility developed in this book-a coordination of absolute and relative truth that allows an understanding of some relativist and some absolutist positions as being fully legitimate and as capable of existing in a relation to their opposites-may contribute to perspectives for resolving these conflicts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFordham University Press
    Release dateAug 25, 2009
    ISBN9780823229154
    The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth

    Related to The Crane's Walk

    Related ebooks

    Philosophy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Universe Knows Right from Wrong

      Sep 9, 2020

      Most of us, most of the time, think and act as though there are facts about good and bad, right and wrong. We think the predatory behavior of Jeffrey Epstein was abhorrent, and that the political actions of Mahatma Gandhi were admirable. Moreover, we

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek

      Mar 17, 2021

      Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, is both a way of thinking about the abundance that characterizes our exterior and interior worlds, and a kind of alternative to traditional religion, a way of being “born aga

      13 min read

    • Article

      Think Yourself Better: 10 Rules Of Philosophy To Live By

      Feb 4, 2023

      The thing that separates human beings from other animals is our extraordinary capacity for complex, abstract thought. This is what has given rise to our diverse cultures, our scientific achievements, our ability to envisage the future and, hopefully,

      9 min read

    • Article

      Changing Minds

      Oct 28, 2019

      Changing Minds
      5 min read

    • Article

      Storytelling Has Gotten Out of Hand: The Millions Interviews Peter Brooks

      Nov 11, 2022

      "I think it's important that we distinguish between living and telling." The post Storytelling Has Gotten Out of Hand: The Millions Interviews Peter Brooks appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Storytelling Has Gotten Out of Hand: The Millions Interviews Peter Brooks

      Nov 11, 2022

      "I think it's important that we distinguish between living and telling." The post Storytelling Has Gotten Out of Hand: The Millions Interviews Peter Brooks appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Perception Of Something

      Nov 7, 2020

      A Perception Of Something
      9 min read

    • Article

      From BR Ambedkar’s preface to The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?

      Nov 9, 2019

      … what annoys one is the intolerance of the Brahmin scholar towards any attempt to expose the Brahmanic literature. He himself would not play the part of an iconoclast even where it is necessary. And he would not allow such non-Brahmins as have the c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Understanding A Life

      Jan 23, 2018

      Understanding A Life
      11 min read

    • Article

      Back To Reality

      Jan 26, 2023

      SO SAYS PRINCE HARRY, and it’s lucky he thinks this because Spare, where this profound philosophical reflection on epistemology can be found, has a number of rather well-recorded moments where the truth as he remembers it (hearing, for example, about

      3 min read

    • Article

      Duty And Loyalty

      Mar 28, 2019

      Duty And Loyalty
      5 min read

    • Article

      Conflicting Views

      Sep 25, 2023

      Conflicting Views
      4 min read

    • Article

      Astrology for The New Age

      Aug 26, 2021

      This month’s subject is Mars-Pluto. What’s that you say? You find the topic an unpleasant one? You’d rather I discussed something pleasant, like Venus? But we’ve discussed Venus in three out of the last four months, and besides that the Sun spends mo

      8 min read

    • Article

      United, Not Divided

      Nov 3, 2022

      One of the most depressing aspects of the Salman Rushdie stabbing is the way that it so quickly became folded into our ongoing obsession with the so-called culture wars. It is extraordinary and saddening that when writers as august as Philip Pullman,

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Self Is Other People

      Mar 29, 2019

      The Self Is Other People
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Self Is Other People

      Apr 3, 2018

      The Self Is Other People
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Crane's Walk

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Crane's Walk - Jeremy Barris

      DbNabook_preview_excerpt.html}˲$ǑݯB6i0h倍6ts`2QUQY-VF<ŧK{DdVFS#md2xzƇǏ^}i쫧?e/Gڻo35>zф[U/M=VUhոma \uU?{iB)>m\}fOus_^{>>߷}zMS񋡒c7:~ƽtqM cݵ!u}6q㶪*c_TyL뫱pjծx>C7~b7Xz6 Uuwc٭̩n4>dz|&G4]eꛩ9x_ӰN撚 /c0`{ԩ؃+CvXƣX06weEM7|c[Y;~S؆sqmS\K{=}0]=md0rɄd(m5L}ntnW6Q}}Œ?ӊ|Qs*τҹNq>~Q y_* *+Y 91Sh^?/L3kA<5VsOz8o!+DZ,Z&Ac/nˏW_=~>x^ΦJT29`BY޿~eA>\.Mu+cO~˟|/<=ɡn*?/^$oupSx9bOH꽿yA~-~y|w:6'yڀ삾IӾ0A"8 \p`…atU# B|3kxbNlq1*NK3!^/wQm8Hÿf*DR IĈ)5|L:$BײUqD|%RO7ںm;Rc~oE\Arw8P}8<<~kyz%rчW''>}Y}Y߿z~O;^}^>jMPb@ԔjF}4Y]4Zzzewc8b^Cş@Hէ]kŏh.9Tz'=O =xb_7Й0j՛kt{/%ūŏfW]J/41iHb>)'bUEw3fzw&"[+]|q>~+=i>u' MJ'c!qc.<1E ]}Շz#t{Mj_}༉``xWGg_ϯ(g9WʿJ=/_.s xY\#CUuUQ<p6Ȫ|Yy^S-cP:~mlqdA!6;kϒԜUt/U ݦķՇ|t9# GxhOm̈́rxf t+#JWkY danlWO̲Wtw&T ࢝"MM#oPKP峝8AeS$""r:Qi$@IXi z6v"B >lId74l%pU5%3%F'b\Ziu9@~췲.@>lz0٠hMI1ֿqdj x&{E b s2iv۝0dͭ^uπgIU_vX4*f\LRz%g_*2 . 4+7땍]H/vYC")5ɉ0LM[pEN-d6O.9;g Q%}3lhKi^؃Sly.u1 v4ǁ֪G@%4n~E2_O[Ѷ~M'(`(p7ۅ,۞:5o8eMtjF\?(4>+p lfEx `~D6>@xqS] f#lMvȋ r ɃHO$ V;BK@!s1yx`^zN"jjɂ[U>D%(ml*'g Q7MAjy`j+f":™*&J*o V%r/W˶/qTϼxKk@0azODc2a|r.!Ľ^j U>0Ҩ@MbTzPk FzLJLW&:v2=46VMڪb~B^.6[POW4qkT?2.WFP+\ jP2JԠ/Tlt֭OPwZ6!HO$VjTt>Ө=~+$<`̜qtӱͼi:']e}$@3wT&=Y5BV0g=b! '3ቯld Q'z}m~?MY3=uCr*Ӿr A%IJ#5?`ql;t''A$iŀLvEm$&S- !v4pbHx3GWeSOS7It4@~6N_3:׸`HioeL1CJ=j D; du-ED{}p&ucXЕ)" Vě 0e?@V_C7̨NMi ӊXXtƼZNb@%xBjI ̚-I>%4D{/l uJ+0g 4{TdsW1LbvK*N[,,C،}-$bNXzTBO6cú0>LQ~v TBr㚙 ߆b1 QfK^G`nנ_gw zh\PPs!S@s'ȾBgHBr8sX;Z;>TM+ø_ֿ6uGbD򓁫i8-kkhCCN?$[Jz dyHٵ- %C~iDe;MD#4ʤFf@wn wn0_m( -±s;3zQ?ch8- Ŝ ۨ bQ`RKCF%T&᜹ƣ27”/%v 4 d G查\sp=U@xs6Outa8fC_qofcRZ+5SxDۿ/38D {,bZ-sVE!l-S!Z/`!nkuvlpRxYo8KL_$T*Z q4P#Lea̢$F|QI(q-8l)$Zedel.2Q:[F4Yz C7IEThk@KcO 5`HpLƝ;mdWg1:Ys`XE #gI%4`1A&( b,S^ ݇9>8GImZȶrSəcPH%K߸zKCgȪ$yIӖ7Z0d]z.$Zf+P/(1.Na"j:]3Szã} FGrDľwԇ!_]Y;Qd@jeDG}OmP!k;-! TXX7Lட\[WPl*p@Ij4(g l@s[QP C=JthGuLt+6FȤlyzmC^B`$fv86H/XG n5![HV UjAW(`}}\ł]m[BnwԨ}VÑ"P8kױbPAznyTU H2CYtSs*= FIFbHPne1AFJ*" u0M8Rm0&>(T"mCh3#_MV;~LWਕ4@FUh:30Ϩ:q:aI-- ص"M{ @gS rNjL?E*n󖱞)-+ވ@T!_B46hC3GٴS+T@='QK)]t&N d`sFOj.K62U ݅u]YY<%g1y%) R$x0i]Ƅ5*:ms?Ddv \$v1ALm<}`m0㛬xCjxȒI :.TS5~z!\fCw&wGt 1UwzC:Ɔi^Ym1 *]:W7էG{i;ǀ\;9}.T2!B90(ǃgZUFopxW>*8Bsuݘt0z(Oر@WC{ _-%_pXbc2SNYͤ:}U];'zHohЕQ%vfdMTkXi"VC4#m <A0iPl1To sQRͻW -ŮzD h-HvMimrSG1 %џSzm Z{pHJ}b jEH>T=NJ^22O*Ց9+V#3"m)YH^bijm8k-)9bA[^0^u}hKzq4)kKH!PTn{i%C>M@DɅOy{yaH3`"~FTݻ^`FH6 /З 'Nwj  ﯘڟiD4>>q.'E$\!%l2$QeX8ZT~.tQlirw ]qX<J46ğH+~OzlgهZ+Uw>]i*@H NN,0_~q=K0tQII)bԣQ z[j|A^F?I%Qf4WGQR3oI؊ ,ͬ?@ЬWġLu)ӌ%cN)Oԙ xe,ZHS-cͼ ?ZQ].s#J@_5Q!,\׽Ѝ"zX!}~|O$nUvBUjQV?`!_ڊ|޹ F!aO2r݈I s^\"٩:ؑydeH`EnLkNʥOa҅[G &|,wk<&h1g=fGAөpA  cqۚ22hIj0:*GQ#tґ>OP+ *u@ X wbB#Jj0%˲=a{AdM2&;.aL6m-mSC*P풢s\hDv%,K $cVpHMi!n,Nf`o`ݤjk4*#φ:Y8$_/2~=j?ԈMVVzGDT0%s4zn(B8"^A^HhjWǃIdcw,bGΤ@yO\w*xHr=e+tp7/Y5.W}i)1ڳL3A 5DES`ѹ¨Yj~ub4AhW|{a0B!]/gIBYl(.˥\epfǚӺ Q672Zr6zv?VKГƊR[Ly!:|*iHq1E#>XI\n@o[h?T#N aYK):Aტ32-&ep,,8Z*|P cY94{\`RBe>i0JbYa=s_?=왝|tԩv״u쬆Pư:MbaKpXq ؽVgApI`w^MޡAp~L 2s7\W-.io/ۼ|63J>|MʬKP/xS] hg4~PljlPK w̞SҮ} a*AtD[.̪8~=tFcLo:x|MAcWe9KU%>ч2iҺfOGS89DZS7J] XԗD@s*Ld"j,u)3"ڐ2Ϗ5f/eְ4^,28CA->M9wMȴu^T2C 3+qQy5%/3(TKe* %JZeּ` 0KgŅDϫY|Ol,o}hE(8,UPYE/L}8:ybqlVi!"O|!ʮlOk&i^_6tES';+P,ʣւE؁*)wOըJXaR4Ycd% qMpZ|tg '/[t"e_}ETVG{|{:bQ8rE i+Ľ`qIZ3RRnwBʼh" Qsm KQn u*Ymeаr9V ~mgju\G1XwYwXw+sxzVL9cVaR]77vAB2! #ZUP~ Kv["$/ӊ}pe;fGjU.EaUO= !TSG2ҽGuH*1K&r!+Fu3;i隦Kثtx標|؅&+F#(oDFǝӆ h^" /rV>c[[# PT^jEogN-/ 3TľaUQS'nM\yg殛YIhWLLWrpSFϏjD'L/4a K\hޘ&R q[YmYfDc1K*;̟ Z5e+IGCe{܈EHvjJnɼ D Nn.YI2AT댳wRDlq%P}nXMWH}BAf0Rv.W\ŭmFԛB#"T8IN#bOpQ2a%S: `))VJ&$7b>*9H;PdcBDLKwe\ph:0/:Ɉdq11@@>Mq1`}bLEh(|S1ʴ3J*Xe-Njdۦu2 0|d[f,\ `T<ّp,K]j`–KRx%z 6jA] C5 RʩW)PZRPќk˭w8U%Uvb}r%.avcxjJ;z%npvrB/xdLr^ZLLz㷖N Z%~u8if b;(21cVVȷ-%)D!pSTH zkl)rA@ZV8,"q\i)Vm Cv7ݴDdX17u8E`Šo@=M!f)й@RQٖ>2ˬ'HYou cUCȝ`Syk,"X؉=}[!zFrbԤQߦRV j.דp$U^F"nl6*ݴWy6H;+/Ux}l^Mn5k^UsR,rݗo`n@-[*(A $R. RPϣ L. ~TZ)ؑJ*uaWuI`T?%)>-IvWkSPUsFMf{sTRO )NGO]}^ًٽcl6xLuuV:g#^` nK\IP_7H¶[:UtMjg[\EчC!ݖռ0 -6kͬt!½Cè}g|ʼ; Hv KW`o&!TkP#^NE͊I*{>34*V)Ix4:jџQ7+,Uy Cs5sj"OHЦ!I[Yp11h6[x`r?OB? E9=f uiZu4\n[1E6e P%Y2KGoYT) Sli^zؒbvNKšlRj%trɗZ+v XYMzv/und:jAJpj \\;7;Jř,b []{3&Dy)&W:f^Ȋ$ZGm=Z5AU.k&KBH.#OFS'fK^H2L|BK3/rkFOO_Qʄ#4yΨ!?_kn $adӐ(w?Z1HN¬k-xPFi|02CA)AN sju .f"/H~>kY3adeQwuD9Um`C'{eU_eHJ"ܢ }"魟p0@nV`Ci&[nu-Ůs6k_F9ƎX X-~bO#VP_i55QlA+d{ ;V\Β^9)J PIvJ(,9g3 H'͑ vӑRÜrn649Fkz?9lB#tuzBGM:HYVTrN&;BxZpx0 =*GiDf>[4HF~G~BgpnmOU jvGV<6T#su Rx6e؇OlJ">w\0Av]WG7FzAzS7a$ʙZ}Z @f+D+(3/[#\-.Nc6P /1P@EXX0!ݹLsi>(up3fo%YƷ5RܦqW.t ڇ1cw;=K͊%qCW׵:=S[<rs[Қ3;+@2sh_r3z)3 Z,&m빠%xY_DlyJXMrae~R570sUcOL3?\S5lg@]mc?ilr9l]baL)O[>a~dA%۹ǂ4ERw+ȈxRRy%"Vƒd3c[+[摥|]hlUF .& v=V̋.JS# uԤBωMvL)qĜ4&03Qɡh٥J:Z`z',Ɂ5fo`#?JX,/Hp;Sy0c|ʪb~VҫֽlW6/$3ciGWegҮ>MʪXqE%G Y`I1gmeH9ɵxk4{\bҿS-cpk#YzJ}D;ɀ={vl`3c-s @7~RϴIy +>#+բXZ/W+ØZr{pzSa\dWuH]xsM?t ( t:/pnNauS^Xtb\1ղH(e؁ ]9&e+Z{9Z(}VnѫV1cP"`feR:42]޼V ǏmXZl)jYca12yJ:ު$L<֕z%˵r,K[:Kv/,nnTء0r0h1DߙguD#t P4T[2.%!Ɯ,գ{hQ]E^bv?8n˥D)%K3ZV X~B_zgi)zH/Lyv#[4j&_g:#*SuY>1݋ٗy/O4J7O̚Ō$_b5c:_̅72'~EE@CyCἚ@UmMI]Bv Wi g_~ū[Ns@헡o~oCʌ$j[ڃfJZst-0њ)2qz8ÃME*[Yl֥mBApE|n"jaޣNG{f4'frsQBDR/8-:%znpn9k0g3-o/-" jwCFKnMꢗs'+5Ӗ-p$sm43,ǫ_w5 8dsjFw}|(`SOM5́X=se{7֍T\T7f{c/6ЫfXd[΃4wlMrLA ٳIGONۏ(JWLL5d9DLoLR}Y7r^Ţ(RL ͦ_|ݳuF+:0ֻMlOy-c5?g/U^OzWT wadu'`Ha%Tr6o|>ЮP,{MVUJQv4[Q-3I(D#3, <f2Rb')+r%fQThܐ6R%<懿N^> ݲ¦`(~4ll{W4RVtyFf,}`/ߋdRqffjŕ33.#rX~ i|WK1d`Ps*$Vg"3gMY$Jȯ=Ү]N)c #%_g.fm.I񕖳łkV1#OnߋeICVV-x@ooxiZsRtv[T,䪃K+=pԑ42U Ϸ鼓eÞEVk>9!f|.FnYmٝE4-&FgCf-YUQN,6Ԕn$Q| ͳҺ΍tyu#xȽJIeX!XV*fgRO/@+)᷵k#]|$^w.l5MOdVdtrHBBxK*LO,NXZk'(nyi_-O90Ӝ`}m܆Koۨt@`QM^W.;L-!S\7DK\'^pԪvV?Si@Eԧzz@[3MgbPI1u ed\\;(NhҚDFwfO#+fc/:xA~-:_(XTK5AR\`ԧ7&BǤ &XɫsQ3ݺbh o,ð+&P:}'tqtrbKDʸFMxnauog<\n+qy.0\&SD5d5K!=yN! l3IBmij+SoE5=bvlw hȩQkjƳ
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1