[PDF] The Theaetetus Of Plato eBook

Author : Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199695296

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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 : 31,87 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872207608

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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 : Paul Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107407923

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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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107697026

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A new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022677306X

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Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Author : Beatriz Bossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110715473

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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 : David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198239307

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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 : John M. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317440501

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Originally published in 1990. This book discusses in a philosophically responsible and illuminating way the progress of the dialogue and its separate sections to improve our understanding of Plato’s work on Theaetetus. An early coverage of this dialogue, this investigation predated a surge in study of Plato’s piece which examined Socratic and pre-Socratic thought. The author’s argument is that the Theaetetus engages in re-evaluation of earlier doctrines of middle-period Platonism as well as reaffirming theories about knowledge. An important work in Platonic studies and epistemology.