Plato's Theory of Knowledge

基本信息

Author: Plato

Format: Paperback | 352 pages

Publisher: Dover Publications

ISBN10 0486427633

ISBN13 9780486427638

Publication date 25 Apr 2003

Dimensions: 132 x 210 x 18.8mm | 381.02g

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書籍介紹

本書由古典學者弗朗西斯·康福德翻譯，這個版本展示了柏拉圖後期的兩個傑作的特點，並提供有用的背景信息和有價值的見解。作品提出了關於永恆的問題，這些對話不僅與哲學學生息息相關，也與每一位讀者和思想家息息相關。本書對知識是什麼這個問題提供了一個系統的處理方法，其中大部分對話發生在蘇格拉底和學生劇場之間。他們探索的答案包括：作為知覺的知識、知識是真正的信仰和知識作為真實的信仰加上一種解釋（即:一個正當的真實信念）以及每個答案的變體。就像大多數蘇格拉底式的對話一樣，結尾沒有給出明確的答案——把主題留給讀者進一步思考。在與之相關的對話中，柏拉圖重新定義了“智者”一詞，同時貶損了“詭辯”這個術語，從那以後，在哲學中，詭辯表明了對語言歧義的欺騙性利用。書中的對話發生在蘇格拉底詢問自稱為真正哲學家的陌生人之間，這是關於哲學家、政治家和詭辯者之間的區別。

Translated by the noted classical scholar Francis M. Cornford, this edition of two masterpieces of Plato's later period features extensive ongoing commentaries by Cornford that provide helpful background information and valuable insights. Both works pose eternal questions that keep these dialogs ever-relevant not only for students of philosophy but also for every reader and thinker. The Theatetus offers a systematic treatment of the question, What is knowledge? Most of the dialog takes place between Socrates and the student Theatetus. Among the answers they explore: knowledge as perception; knowledge as true belief; knowledge as true belief plus an account (i.e., a justified true belief); as well as variations on each of these answers. Like most Socratic dialogs, the Theatetus ends without a definitive answer -- leaving the subject open for the reader's further consideration. In the Sophist, a related dialog, Plato redefines the term sophist, which hitherto had connoted one who gives sophia (wisdom) to his disciples. Plato depreciated the term, and ever since, in philosophy, sophistry indicates the deceptive exploitation of linguistic ambiguities. The dialog follows Socrates' cross-examination of a self-proclaimed true philosopher, The Stranger, on the distinction between philosophers, statesmen, and sophists.

作者簡介

柏拉圖和他的老師蘇格拉底，以及他的學生亞里士多德，都是人們熟悉的古代哲學家。除了撰寫哲學對話，用於教授邏輯學、倫理學、修辭學、宗教、數學和哲學。他還創建了雅典學院，這是西方世界*所高等學府。

Plato ranks among the most familiar ancient philosophers, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle. In addition to writing philosophical dialogues -- used to teach logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion, and mathematics as well as philosophy -- he founded Athens' Academy, the Western world's first institution of higher learning.