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Reading Plato’s <i>Theaetetus</i>

2015· article· en· W1546559954 on OpenAlex
Timothy Chappell, Joshua Reynolds

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Bibliographic record

VenueAestimatio Sources and Studies in the History of Science · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlossaryArgument (complex analysis)Reading (process)PhilosophyEpistemologyLiteratureLinguisticsChemistryArt

Abstract

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Chappell's recent commentary on Plato's Theaetetus follows the format of Cornford's classic Plato's Theory of Knowledge [1935] in that it offers a translation of individual sections of text followed by brief commentary. Its main differences from Cornford are an analytic approach, and a systematic survey and critique of alternative scholarly viewpoints. Chappell's commentary is, therefore, more rigorous and philosophically subtle than Cornford's. This is certainly the book's greatest merit. Occasionally, however, one gets the impression that the discussion has strayed far away from the Theaetetus and that this difficult dialogue has become even more complicated. 1 In addition to offering philosophical analysis of individual passages and an interpretation of the dialogue as a whole, Chappell ventures outside of the dialogue to address its place within the Platonic corpus and the issue of whether it supports a unified or revisionist model of Plato's thought. He defends a modified version of Cornford's 'Unitarianism' in arguing that the Theaetetus, although a late dialogue that does not mention Forms, implicitly defends the need for Forms in any correct account of knowledge.

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Teacher disagreement score0.882
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

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Opus teacher head0.127
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