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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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- Schriftsteller Sedley, David
- ISBN13 9780199204144
- ISBN10 0199204144
- Buchseiten 201
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2006
The widwife of platonism: text and subtext in Plato's "Theaetetus"
- Autor/in David Sedley
- Verlag OXFORD U.P.
- ISBN 9780199204144
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