Belief, Knowledge, and Learning in Plato's Middle Dialogues
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Published:1983
Issue:
Volume:9
Page:63-100
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ISSN:0229-7051
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Container-title:Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Can. j. philos. Suppl. vol.
Author:
Morgan Michael L.
Abstract
There is a problem about belief and knowledge in Plato's epistemology that has exercised serious students of Plato only to settle into a recent orthodoxy. Guthrie characterizes the problem and its current resolution this way: ‘In the Meno doxa appeared to be a dim apprehension of the same objects (Forms and the necessary truths of mathematics) of which knowledge is a clear and complete understanding … in the Republic each is directed to different objects, knowledge to the Forms and doxa to the sensible world alone … at least the opinion seems now to prevail that on the relationship between doxa and knowledge Meno and Republic are irreconcilable, and exhibit a complete change of mind on Plato's part.'
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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