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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-20
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9004516018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the explorations of excellent scholars, this book provides a new understanding of Plato's Theaetetus, an absolute masterpiece which contains fundamental insights – about the nature of human cognition, perception, rationality – which are still at the centre of the contemporary debate.
Author: Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0199695296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZina 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: Beatriz Bossi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 3110715597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1107014832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.
Author: Rosemary Desjardins
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1990-03-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1438400918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Desjardins' conclusion, that the Theaetetus really does point to a particular theory of knowledge, certainly will be controversial, since for many people the idea that the Theaetetus fails to define knowledge is the cornerstone of their interpretation of Plato's later philosophical thought. But whatever one thinks about the conclusion, it must be agreed that the manner in which it is defended is intrinsically important. Desjardins starts from the unassailable premise that the dialogues are internally unified, and that everything in the dialogues is there for a reason. Her method, then, is to show how some of the features of the dialogue that are usually not taken very seriously actually are very important. Of course, she is not the only scholar taking this sort of tack, but what she makes of the various elements of the Theaetetus is a most impressive construction.
Author: M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0521750725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author: Sarah Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1139503448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of interpretation which have been brought to bear on the work. Her book is for everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology, whether classicists, philosophers, historians of ideas or historians of science. It offers new findings to scholars familiar with the material, but it is also a clear and reliable resource for anyone coming to it for the first time.
Author: Plato
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0226670392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Franco Trabattoni
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-01-16
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9004538240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato’s Phaedo and provides an overall interpretation of the dialogue.
