Belief and truth a skeptic reading of Plato

What is ignorance?: Plato on presumed knowledge, wishful thinking, and not understanding your own thoughts -- Belief and investigation in Plato's Republic -- Belief and truth in Plato's Theaetetus -- The nature of disagreement: ancient relativism and skepticism -- The aims of skeptical inv...

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1. Verfasser: Vogt, Katja Maria (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2012
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Zusammenfassung:What is ignorance?: Plato on presumed knowledge, wishful thinking, and not understanding your own thoughts -- Belief and investigation in Plato's Republic -- Belief and truth in Plato's Theaetetus -- The nature of disagreement: ancient relativism and skepticism -- The aims of skeptical investigation -- Skepticism and concepts: can the skeptic think? -- Why beliefs are never true: a reconstruction of stoic epistemology -- Concluding remarks: skepticism and relativism.
What is ignorance?: Plato on presumed knowledge, wishful thinking, and not understanding your own thoughts -- Belief and investigation in Plato's Republic -- Belief and truth in Plato's Theaetetus -- The nature of disagreement: ancient relativism and skepticism -- The aims of skeptical investigation -- Skepticism and concepts: can the skeptic think? -- Why beliefs are never true: a reconstruction of stoic epistemology -- Concluding remarks: skepticism and relativism
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 191 - 202
Beschreibung:IX, 209 S.
22 cm
ISBN:9780199916818
978-0-19-991681-8
0199916810
0-19-991681-0