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Theaetetus: A Socratic Dialogue

Theaetetus: A Socratic Dialogue

Jowett, Benjamin
Plato

Paperback

PhilosophyAncient Greece

ISBN10: 1724241982
ISBN13: 9781724241986
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Theaetetus by Plato. A Socratic Dialogue translated with an introduction by Benjamin Jowett. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory. Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited from discovering what he does not know, and that he may be better able to approach the topic in the future. The conversation ends with Socrates' announcement that he has to go to court to face a criminal indictment. The dialogue is framed by a brief scene in which Euclid of Megara tells his friend Terpsion that he has a written record of a dialogue between Socrates and Theaetetus, which occurred when Theaetetus was quite a young man. This dialogue is then read aloud to the two men by a slave boy owned by Euclid.

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