Theaetetus

Plato ., My Old Classics, My Old Classics

• Editore: Books on Demand
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783756257577
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Philosophie
• Categoria: Histoire et théorie de la philosophie

Theaetetus by Plato - is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge, written circa 369 BCE.In this dialogue set in a wrestling school, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory.Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited from discovering what he does not know, and that he may be better able to approach the topic in the future. The conversation ends with Socrates' announcement that he has to go to court to face a criminal indictment.The dialogue is framed by a brief scene in which Euclid of Megara tells his friend Terpsion that he has a written record of a dialogue between Socrates and Theaetetus, which occurred when Theaetetus was quite a young man. This dialogue is then read aloud to the two men by a slave owned by Euclid.