Plato in Germany: Natorp -- Kant -- Heidegger

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Law and Form; 1. Kant and the Limit of Perfection; 2. From Königsberg to Marburg; 3. Natorp's Theories of Knowledge and History; 4. Natorp's Plato; 5. From Natorp to Heidegger; 6. The Friends of Form: The Archaist Reception of Plato; 7. Heidegger's Plato; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Names; Subject Index.;This study explores Plato in the work of Kant, Natorp, and Heidegger. The author aims sympathetically to present their important if unfamiliar Plato-interpretations, and to grasp how these are related to their philosophical projects. He argues that Natorp's interpretation of the Platonic forms as laws and not "things" grows out of the Marburg School's struggle against psychologism: his reading is thus not simply foisted upon the text, but reveals an important dimension of Plato's thought. Yet Natorp's insight is blind to the key aspects of form and vision --a flaw that Heidegger and such archai.