The Midwife Of Platonism
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Author | : David Sedley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199267030 |
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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 readersfamiliar 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 interms 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.
Author | : D. N. Sedley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780191601828 |
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Plato's 'Theaetetus', an acknowledged masterpiece, is among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Here, the author tracks the way in which Socrates unwittingly prepares the ground for Plato's mature doctrines, and reinterprets the dialogue's arguments from his perspective.
Author | : David Sedley |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191532983 |
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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.
Author | : I. M. Crombie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0415632196 |
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In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife’s apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable account of the author’s two volume magnum opus, An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines. An accessible and lucid introduction to Plato’s ideas is provided which nonetheless challenges traditional interpretations. In particular the author is concerned to offer an interpretation of the significance of what Plato said. The chapters are arranged by topic, for ease of comprehension.
Author | : I M Crombie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113621609X |
Download Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife’s apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable account of the author’s two volume magnum opus, An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines. An accessible and lucid introduction to Plato’s ideas is provided which nonetheless challenges traditional interpretations. In particular the author is concerned to offer an interpretation of the significance of what Plato said. The chapters are arranged by topic, for ease of comprehension.
Author | : Zina Giannopoulou |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199695296 |
Download Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : I. M. Crombie |
Publisher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780313232435 |
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Author | : David D. Leitao |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107017289 |
Download The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Author | : Timothy D. J. Chappell |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780872207608 |
Download Reading Plato's Theaetetus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Frisbee Sheffield |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-07-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191536822 |
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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.