Plato.
In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife's apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manage...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Plato.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PLATO The Midwife's Apprentice; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I. Preliminaries; 2. The Traditional Picture; 3. ""Platonism"" and the Theory of Forms; 4. The Physical World; 5. Spiritual Things; 6. Perception and Knowledge; 7. Knowledge and Belief; 8. The Logic of Knowing and Believing; 9. Dialectic and the Structure of Reality; 10. The Good Life; 11. Virtue and the Pursuit of Happiness; 12. Culture and the Imagination; 13. The Good Society; 14. In Conclusion; Index