The Relation of Parts and Wholes in Plato

本项目将分析柏拉图的部分与整体的关系（PWR），以及它对古代哲学和现代流变学的重要性。该项目的第一部分主要关注柏拉图的前辈（前苏格拉底派），确定了他们将压水堆作为第二部分框架的方法，第二部分将讨论柏拉图对话中的压水堆，这些对话通常被学者们忽视。古代和现代哲学家之间的相似之处将证明柏拉图的PWR对思想史做出了开创性的贡献。这个项目将在现代流变学中引发争论，并促进我们对古代柏拉图主义中后来哲学发展的理解。

This project will analyse Plato's relation between parts and wholes (PWR), and its importance for ancient philosophy and modern mereology. The first part of the project, which focuses on Plato's predecessors (the Presocratics), determines their approach to PWR as framework for the second part, which will address PWR in dialogues of Plato typically overlooked by scholars. The parallels drawn between ancient and modern philosophers will demonstrate that Plato's PWR constitutes a ground-breaking contribution to the history of thought. This project will both generate debates in modern mereology and advance our understanding of later philosophical developments within ancient Platonism.