First published in 1962, this book provides a systematic account of the development of Plato’s theory of knowledge.
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Plato's theory of knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist of Plato translated with a running commentary
This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required.
The book includes detailed studies of the Meno, Republic and Theaetetus, and argues that the insights that Plato brings about the nature of conceptual knowledge, its importance in underpinning all other activities, and about the notion of ...
The book defends these characterizations by arguing that they explain important features of Plato's epistemology.
Plato's Theory of Knowledge
Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. Section 3.2.1–3.2.3 are revisions of “Plato on the Power of Ignorance,' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy suppl.: Virtue and Happiness: Essays in Honour of Julia Annas, ed.
In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between knowledge and belief, according to which 'knowledge' stems from direct and perspicuous cognitive contact with ('seeing') its object, whereas ...
According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus.