Octavian PURIC

Academic Year:
2024/2025

Field of Study:
Philosophy

Research Program:
NEC Odobleja

Affiliation:
Independent Scholar

Country:
Romania

Research project: Broken and Fulfilled Promises: A Study of Platonic Metaphysics Through the Lens of the Notion of Promise

The goal of this project is to explore Plato`s tacit understanding of being and seeming which led to the development of his grades of reality metaphysics. I aim to do this by exploring the hypothesis that both these notions conceptually derive from a common root, identifiable in the notion of promise and its cognates: being as promise-fulfilling and seeming as promise-breaking.