Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.
Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gail Fine earned her BA from the University of Michigan, and her PhD from Harvard University. Since 1975, she has been a professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Since 2008, she has also been a Senior Research Fellow in Merton College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford. She is the author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticisms of Plato's Theory of Forms (Clarendon Press, 1993); of Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays (Clarendon Press, 2003); and of many articles in various areas of ancient philosophy. She is also the editor of Plato 1 and 2 in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (OUP, 1999), and of The Oxford Handbook of Plato (OUP USA, 2008).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction Part I: Plato's Meno 2: The Origins of the Problem 3: Meno's Questions and Socrates' Dilemma 4: Socrates' Three-Stage Reply: the First and Second Stages 5: The Third Stage: the Second Statement of The Theory of Recollection Part II: Aristotle and After 6: Aristotelian Inquiry 7: Epicurean Inquiry 8: Stoic Inquiry 9: Plutarch's Account 10: Sceptical inquiry: Sextus and the Stoics 11: Sceptical Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans Bibliography Index Locorum Index Nominum General Index
1: Introduction Part I: Plato's Meno 2: The Origins of the Problem 3: Meno's Questions and Socrates' Dilemma 4: Socrates' Three-Stage Reply: the First and Second Stages 5: The Third Stage: the Second Statement of The Theory of Recollection Part II: Aristotle and After 6: Aristotelian Inquiry 7: Epicurean Inquiry 8: Stoic Inquiry 9: Plutarch's Account 10: Sceptical inquiry: Sextus and the Stoics 11: Sceptical Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans Bibliography Index Locorum Index Nominum General Index
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