The possibility of inquiry : Meno's paradox from Socrates to Sextus / Gail Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Gail, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Meno.

Plato.

Inquiry (Theory of knowledge).

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages)

Other Title:

Meno's paradox from Socrates to Sextus

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gail Fine presents a full-length study of Meno's paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's 'Meno'. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.

Contents:

Plato's Meno. The origins of the problem ; Meno's questions and Socrates' dilemma ; Socrates' three-stage reply : the first and second stages ; The third stage : the second statement of the theory of recollection

Aristotle and after. Aristotelian inquiry ; Epicurean inquiry ; Stoic inquiry ; Plutarch's account ; Skeptical inquiry 1 : Sextus and the Stoics ; Skeptical inquiry 2 : Sextus and the Epicureans.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-882264-2

0-19-150247-2

OCLC:

875582440