First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1962, this book provides a systematic account of the development of Plato’s theory of knowledge.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
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 offers a new interpretation of Plato and harmonizes with the best philosophical traditions of antiquity.
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.
Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist of Plato
In the first part of the book the author examines Plato’s historical background and summarizes the Republic. Successive chapters are concerned with the critical discussion of specific educational issues.