Author : Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199695296
Zina Giannopoulou offers a new reading of Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge, alongside Apology, Socrates' speech in defence of his philosophical practice, and argues that the former text is a philosophical elaboration of the latter.
Author : Timothy D. J. Chappell
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872207608
This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's aim in the Theaetetus is to further the cause of his own anti-empiricist theory of knowledge by testing -- and destroying -- a series of empiricist theories of knowledge.
Author : David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198239307
In the Theaetetus, Plato looks afresh at a problem to which, he now realizes, he had earlier given an inadequate answer: the problem of the nature of knowledge. What Plato has to say on this question is of great interest and importance, not only to scholars of Plato, but also to philosopherswith wholly contemporary interests. This book is a sustained philosophical analysis and critique of the Theaetetus. David Bostock provides a detailed examination of Plato's arguments and the issues that they raise. He adjudicates on rival interpretations of the text, and looks at the relations between this and other works of Plato.The book does not presuppose any knowledge of Greek.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Beatriz Bossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110715473
This book meets the need to revise the standard interpretations of an apparently aporetic dialogue, full of eloquent silences and tricky suggestions, as it explores, among many other topics, the dramatis personae, including Plato's self-references behind the scene and the role of Socrates on stage, the question of method and refutation and the way dialectics plays a part in the dialogue. More especifically, it contains a set of papers devoted to perception and Plato's criticism of Heraclitus and Protagoras. A section deals with the problem of the relation between knowledge and thinking, including the the aviary model and the possibility of error. It also emphasizes some positive contributions to the classical Platonic doctrines and his philosophy of education. The reception of the dialogue in antiquity and the medieval age closes the analysis. Representing different hermeneutical traditions, prestigious scholars engage with these issues in divergent ways, as they shed new light on a complex controversial work.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
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Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107014832
A new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.
Author : Paul Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107407923
The Theaetetus is one of the most widely studied of any of the Platonic dialogues because its dominant theme concerns the significant philosophical question, what is knowledge? In this new interpretation of the Theaetetus, Paul Stern provides the first full-length treatment of its political character in relationship to this dominant theme. Stern argues that this approach sheds significant light on the distinctiveness of the Socratic way of life, with respect to both its initial justification and its ultimate character.
Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226670392
The Being of the Beautiful collects Plato’s three dialogues, the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesmen, in which Socrates formulates his conception of philosophy while preparing for trial. Renowned classicist Seth Benardete’s careful translations clearly illuminate the dramatic and philosophical unity of these dialogues and highlight Plato’s subtle interplay of language and structure. Extensive notes and commentaries, furthermore, underscore the trilogy’s motifs and relationships. “The translations are masterpieces of literalness. . . . They are honest, accurate, and give the reader a wonderful sense of the Greek.”—Drew A. Hyland, Review of Metaphysics
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199204144
Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents a self-distancing from these. David Sedley's book offers a via media, founded on a radical separation of the author, Plato, from his main speaker, Socrates. The dialogue, it is argued, is addressed to readers familiar with Plato's mature doctrines, and sets out to show how these doctrines, far from being an abandonment of his Socratic heritage, are its natural outcome. The Socrates portrayed here is the same Socrates as already portrayed in Plato's early dialogues. While not a Platonist, he is exhibited - to put it in terms of an image made famous by this dialogue - as having been Platonism's midwife. In a comprehensive rereading of the text, Sedley tracks the ways in which Socrates is shown unwittingly preparing the ground for Plato's mature doctrines, and reinterprets the dialogue's individual arguments from this perspective. The book is addressed to all readers interested in Plato, and does not require knowledge of Greek.
