Plato S Epistemology

Author : Franco Trabattoni
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 337 pages
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Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462700598

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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology by Franco Trabattoni Pdf

An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy 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.

Author : Jessica Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198867401

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Plato's Epistemology by Jessica Moss Pdf

Plato's Epistemology presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Moss argues, against the grain of much modern scholarship, that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.

Author : Jessica Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192637352

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Plato's Epistemology by Jessica Moss Pdf

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own. Going against the grain of recent scholarship, and drawing on ancient interpretations of Plato, Jessica Moss argues that Plato is not best understood as studying what we now call knowledge and belief. Instead, Moss proposes that the central players in his epistemology, epistêmê and doxa, are each essentially to be understood as cognition of a certain kind of object. Epistêmê is cognition of what Is - where this turns out to mean that it is a deep grasp of ultimate reality. Doxa is cognition of what seems - where this turns out to mean that it is atheoretical thought that mistakes images for reality. The book defends these characterizations by arguing that they explain important features of Plato's epistemology. In particular, it shows that they underlie and make sense of a view which was long attributed to Plato but has recently been deemed "outrageous": that there is no doxa of Forms, and no epistêmê of perceptibles. Finally, Moss contends that Plato's epistemology is so different from modern epistemology because it is motivated by his central ethical and metaphysical views. As the Cave allegory illustrates, he holds that the goal of life is to be in contact with genuine Being, and that the greatest obstacle to this goal is our tendency to rest content with appearances. Therefore, when Plato turns to epistemological investigations, the distinction he finds most salient is that between cognition of what Is and cognition of what seems.

Author : Andreas Sofroniou
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471665844

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Plato's Epistemology by Andreas Sofroniou Pdf

Author : Jessica Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192637345

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Plato's Epistemology by Jessica Moss Pdf

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own. Going against the grain of recent scholarship, and drawing on ancient interpretations of Plato, Jessica Moss argues that Plato is not best understood as studying what we now call knowledge and belief. Instead, Moss proposes that the central players in his epistemology, epistêmê and doxa, are each essentially to be understood as cognition of a certain kind of object. Epistêmê is cognition of what Is - where this turns out to mean that it is a deep grasp of ultimate reality. Doxa is cognition of what seems - where this turns out to mean that it is atheoretical thought that mistakes images for reality. The book defends these characterizations by arguing that they explain important features of Plato's epistemology. In particular, it shows that they underlie and make sense of a view which was long attributed to Plato but has recently been deemed "outrageous": that there is no doxa of Forms, and no epistêmê of perceptibles. Finally, Moss contends that Plato's epistemology is so different from modern epistemology because it is motivated by his central ethical and metaphysical views. As the Cave allegory illustrates, he holds that the goal of life is to be in contact with genuine Being, and that the greatest obstacle to this goal is our tendency to rest content with appearances. Therefore, when Plato turns to epistemological investigations, the distinction he finds most salient is that between cognition of what Is and cognition of what seems.

Author : Nicholas R. Baima,Tyler Paytas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000320039

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Plato’s Pragmatism by Nicholas R. Baima,Tyler Paytas Pdf

Plato’s Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus. The authors argue that the successful pursuit of a good life requires cultivating certain ethical commitments, and that maintaining these commitments often requires violating epistemic norms. In the course of defending the pragmatist interpretation, the authors present a forceful Platonic argument for the conclusion that the value of truth has its limits, and that what matters most are one’s ethical commitments and the courage to live up to them. Their interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato’s ethics and epistemology. Plato’s Pragmatism will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Plato and ancient philosophy. It will also be of interest to those working on current controversies in ethics and epistemology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plato's Later Epistemology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029150658

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Plato 1 by Gail Fine Pdf

This series aims to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

Author : Thomas Blackson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401102810

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Inquiry, Forms, and Substances by Thomas Blackson Pdf

i. Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that the Forms are substances. Whether the Forms are substances is not an issue that Socrates had in mind. He did not deny it, but neither did he affirm it. If Socrates were asked a series of questions designed to determine whether he believed that the Forms are substances, he would admit that he had no opinion about this philosophical issue. Unlike Plato, Socrates was not a metaphysician. The same, of course, would not have always been true of Plato. Unlike Socrates, he was a metaphysician. At some point in his career, and at least by the time of the Phaedo and the Republic, Plato did what Socrates never thought to do. Plato considered the question and concluded that the Forms are substances. Although this development occurred more than two thousand years ago, time has not eclipsed its importance. It is one of the most seminal events in the history of the philosophy. With his defense of Socrates's method of intellectual inquiry, and the development of his Theory of Forms, Plato caused a now familiar cluster of metaphysical and epistemological issues to become central to philosophy.

Author : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199262225

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Epistemology After Protagoras by Mi-Kyoung Lee Pdf

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Author : Elizabeth A. Laidlaw-Johnson
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019304208

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Plato's Epistemology by Elizabeth A. Laidlaw-Johnson Pdf

Plato's thought evolves from the epistemology of the Meno, Phaedo, and Republic to the Combined Doctrine of the Theaetetus. The Combined Doctrine maintains that both Forms and certain objects rooted in perception are objects of knowledge. Dialectic results in apprehension of the Good, and consequently of being, which brings about a permanent change in a person's state of mind enabling one to know what one previously believed. The Combined Doctrine resolves the paradoxes of the refutations of the Theaetetus. It turns out that the difference between true belief and knowledge for Plato amounts to difference in states of mind.

Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190639730

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The Oxford Handbook of Plato by Gail Fine Pdf

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues, all serving several functions at once: they survey the current academic landscape; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato differs in two main ways from the first edition. First, six leading scholars of ancient philosophy have contributed entirely new chapters: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno; Luca Castagnoli on the Phaedo; Susan Sauvé Meyer on the Laws; and David Sedley on Plato's theology. This new edition therefore covers both dialogues and topics in more depth than the first edition did. Secondly, most of the original chapters have been revised and updated, some in small, others in large, ways.

Author : Mauro Bonazzi,Angela Ulacco,Filippo Forcignanò
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004398993

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Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism by Mauro Bonazzi,Angela Ulacco,Filippo Forcignanò Pdf

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Author : Plato,Gwynneth Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UVA:X000013365

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Plato's Epistemology and Related Logical Problems by Plato,Gwynneth Matthews Pdf

Author : Nicholas P. White
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0915144220

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Plato on Knowledge and Reality by Nicholas P. White Pdf