Reading Plato's Theaetetus
Title | Reading Plato's Theaetetus PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy D. J. Chappell |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780872207608 |
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.
Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology
Title | Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology PDF eBook |
Author | Zina Giannopoulou |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013-06-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199695296 |
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.
Plato's Theaetetus
Title | Plato's Theaetetus PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2020-05-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022677306X |
Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Plato
Title | Plato PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1975 |
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Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus
Title | Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stern |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781107407923 |
The Theaetetus is one of the most widely studied of any of the Platonic dialogues because its dominant theme concerns the significant philosophical question, what is knowledge? In this new interpretation of the Theaetetus, Paul Stern provides the first full-length treatment of its political character in relationship to this dominant theme. Stern argues that this approach sheds significant light on the distinctiveness of the Socratic way of life, with respect to both its initial justification and its ultimate character.
Plato's Theaetetus
Title | Plato's Theaetetus PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Cooper |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2015-05-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317440501 |
Originally published in 1990. This book discusses in a philosophically responsible and illuminating way the progress of the dialogue and its separate sections to improve our understanding of Plato’s work on Theaetetus. An early coverage of this dialogue, this investigation predated a surge in study of Plato’s piece which examined Socratic and pre-Socratic thought. The author’s argument is that the Theaetetus engages in re-evaluation of earlier doctrines of middle-period Platonism as well as reaffirming theories about knowledge. An important work in Platonic studies and epistemology.
Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist
Title | Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107697026 |
A new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.