Plato's ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited
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Plato's ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited

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  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Plato's ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9783110715477
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
 
Part 
I: 
On 
Stage 
and 
Behind 
the 
Scene 

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: On Stage and Behind the Scene
  5. Plato’s Self-References
  6. The Old and the New Socrates in the Theaetetus
  7. Part II: Method
  8. On Plato’s Methodological Strategy (Theaetetus 151d–186e): From Hypothesis to Self-Refutation
  9. Dialectic in the Theaetetus
  10. Part III: Subject and Object of Perception in the Flux
  11. Heraclitus, Protagoras and Plato: Theaetetus 155d1–160e4
  12. On Socrates’ Manipulative Dealing with Theaetetus’ First Claim about Knowledge
  13. Peritrope Once Again
  14. Platonic Epistemology and the Internalist-Externalist Debate
  15. ‘We Are What We Eat’: The Theaetetus as a Philosophy of Education
  16. Part IV: Knowledge and Thinking
  17. Soul in the Theaetetus
  18. Disposition in the Aviary Model
  19. Thinking as Conversation in Plato’s Theaetetus
  20. Traces of Euporia in an Aporetic Dialogue: Relational Ontology in Plato’s Theaetetus
  21. Part V: The Reception
  22. Intra-Socratic Polemics in Plato’s Theaetetus: Antisthenes and the Dream Theory
  23. The Theaetetus as a First Step on the Path to a New Academy
  24. The Textual Tradition of the Theaetetus from Stobaeus to the Medieval Anthologies
  25. Bibliography
  26. List of Contributors
  27. Index