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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Theaetetus"”.
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Theaetetus and the Making of a Philosopher: Character and the Nature of Philosophical Discussion in Plato's Theaetetus
Traditional approaches to Plato’s Theaetetus have it that it is only, or at least primarily, about knowledge. Yet large sections of the dialogue, including the so-called “Digression” of 172c-177c, do not appear to be concerned with knowledge at all, but with the nature of the philosopher and the …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
… expression, is problematic and ineffectual. The Theaetetus, with its central focus on the notion of episteme as aisthesis, provides the ideal context in which the sophistic approach to knowledge through the medium of logos can be exposed and renounced. My interpretation aims at the following …
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
… affair. This is particularly apparent in the <i>Theaetetus</i> where there are two primary interpretations of the first definition of knowledge—Reading A and Reading B, Unitarian and Developmentalist interpretations respectively. Reading A claims Plato has accepted moderate versions of …
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Tracing the Establishment of Political Society: Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Greek Literature
… of trying to retain political identity; and the Theaetetus, which not only contains the first known attempt to create a model of memory but also ‘remembers’ the Apology. The texts are also united by the theme of the law court which runs through all three in the form of a metaphor, an agōn and an …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… <em>Sophist</em>, in which the Stranger and Theaetetus lay out a series of definitions in an attempt to articulate what makes a sophist. The Stranger’s definition of a sophist as a persuasive teacher of ἀρετή for pay, combined with the clear bias of Plato against these competitors of …