Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

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 conf...

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Main Author Trabattoni, Franco
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Leuven Leuven University Press 2016
Edition1
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Classical Greek philosophy
Epistemology
History & Surveys
History of Western philosophy
Humanities
intellectual history
Knowledge, Theory of
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy and Religion
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Summary: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, 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.
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ISBN:9462700591
9789462700598
DOI:10.11116/EPE_AMP