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Essays on Plato's Epistemology / Franco Trabattoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trabattoni, Franco, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102262
- ISBN:
- 9789462700598
- Publisher Number:
- 10.11116/EPE_AMP
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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