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" The midwife of Platonism : "
David Sedley.
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BL
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961678
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b716048
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Sedley, D. N.
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The midwife of Platonism : : text and subtext in Plato's Theaetetus /\ David Sedley.
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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x, 201 pages ;; 22 cm
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0199204144
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: 0199267030
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: 9780199204144
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: 9780199267033
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and indexes.
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| Contents
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1. Opening moves -- 1. Locating the Theaetetus -- 2. Some interpretations -- 3. The authorial voice -- 4. The midwife of Platonism -- 5. Plato's unitarianism -- 6. The prologue -- 7. Epistemology or ethics? -- 8. Problems of definition (146c7-147c7) -- 9. Mathematics (147c7-148d7) -- 10. Midwifery and recollection -- 11. The midwife's toolkit -- 12. The effects of midwifery -- 2. 'Knowledge is perception' -- 1. Enter Protagoras -- 2. Flux -- 3. The three theses -- 4. Broad and narrow Protagoreanism -- 3. Relativism -- 1. The first critique of Protagoras (161b8-168c7) -- 2. The second critique of Protagoras (169d3-171e9) -- 3. Value relativism (172a1-c1) -- 4. Broadening perspectives (172c2-176a1) -- 5. God (176a2-177c4) -- 6. Piety -- 7. The final critique of Protagoras (177c2-179b9) -- 4. Perception -- 1. Perception and flux (179c1-183c7) -- 2. Plato and flux -- 3. Plato and perception -- 4. A priori and empirical (184b3-185e1) -- 5. Truth and knowledge (186a2-187a3) -- 6. The unity of consciousness -- 7. Outcome -- 8. Retrospect on part I -- 5. Falsity puzzles -- 1. Why falsity? -- 2. The knowing-and-not-knowing puzzle (188a1-c9) -- 3. The being-and-not-being solution (188c10-189b9) -- 4. 'Other-judging' (189b10-191a5) -- 5. The wax tablet (191a5-196c9) -- 6. The aviary (196d1-200c6) -- 7. The jury (200d5-201c6) -- 8. Retrospect on part II -- 6. Accounts -- 1. The dream (201b6-202d7) -- 2. The critique of the dream theory (202d8-206c2) -- 3. The second 'element' theory (206e6-208b12) -- 4. Statement of the distinguishing mark (208b12-210b3) -- 5. Retrospect and prospect.
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Counter Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents a self-distancing from these. David Sedley's book offers a via media, founded on a radical separation of the author, Plato, from his main speaker, Socrates. The dialogue, it is argued, is addressed to readers familiar with Plato's mature doctrines, and sets out to show how these doctrines, far from being an abandonment of his Socratic heritage, are its natural outcome. The Socrates portrayed here is the same Socrates as already portrayed in Plato's early dialogues. While not a Platonist, he is exhibited - to put it in terms of an image made famous by this dialogue - as having been Platonism's midwife. In a comprehensive rereading of the text, Sedley tracks the ways in which Socrates is shown unwittingly preparing the ground for Plato's mature doctrines, and reinterprets the dialogue's individual arguments from this perspective. The book is addressed to all readers interested in Plato, and does not require knowledge of Greek.
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Plato., Theaetetus.
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Socrates.
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Plato-- Knowledge.
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Plato,v427-v347., Theaetetus.
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Plato.
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Plato., Theaetetus.
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Socrates.
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Socrates.
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Plato., Theaetetus.
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Plato-- Theaetetus.
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Socrates.
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Sophists (Greek philosophy)
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Theaetetus (Plato)
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Theaetetus (Plato)
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| Dewey Classification
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121
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| LC Classification
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B386.S78 2004
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08.21bcl
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5,1ssgn
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6,12ssgn
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CD 3065rvk
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CD 3067rvk
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FH 28690rvk
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FH 28710rvk
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