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Title

  • Essays on Plato's epistemology

Summary

  • Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature -- and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research -- maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.

Names

  • Trabattoni, Franco, author.

Created / Published

  • Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, [2016]

Contents

  • Introduction -- 1. Thought as inner dialogue (Theaet. 189e4-190a6) -- 2. Logos and doxa : the meaning of the refutation of the third definition of epist em e in the Theaetetus -- 3. Theaetetus 200d-201c : truth without certainty -- 4. Foundationalism or coherentism? On the third definition of epist em e in the Theaetetus -- 5. What is the meaning of Plato's Theaetetus? Some remarks on a new annotated translation of the dialogue -- 6. David Sedley's Theaetetus -- 7. The "virtuous circle" of language. On the meaning of Plato's Cratylus -- 8. The knowledge of the philosopher -- 9. What role do the mathematical sciences play in the metaphor of the line? -- 10. Socrates' error in the Parmenides -- 11. On the distinguishing features of Plato's "Metaphysics" (starting from the Parmenides) -- 12. Is there such a thing as a "Platonic theory of the ideas" according to Aristotle? -- 13. The unity of virtue, self-predication and the "third man" in Protagoras 329e-332a -- 14. Plato : philosophy, politics and knowledge. An overview.

Headings

  • -  Plato
  • -  Knowledge, Theory of

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR viewed on 5-15-2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B398.K7

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020376764

OCLC Number

  • 945662549

Reproduction Number

  • 102262
  • 22573/ctt1b9wqjv

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Trabattoni, Franco, Author. Essays on Plato's epistemology. [Leuven Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2016] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020376764/.

APA citation style:

Trabattoni, F. (2016) Essays on Plato's epistemology. [Leuven Belgium: Leuven University Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020376764/.

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Trabattoni, Franco, Author. Essays on Plato's epistemology. [Leuven Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2016] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020376764/>.