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The Midwife of Platonism - Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus (Paperback, New edition)
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The Midwife of Platonism - Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus (Paperback, New edition)
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Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the
most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since
antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by
Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents
a self-distancing from these. David Sedley's book offers a via
media, founded on a radical separation of the author, Plato, from
his main speaker, Socrates. The dialogue, it is argued, is
addressed to readers familiar with Plato's mature doctrines, and
sets out to show how these doctrines, far from being an abandonment
of his Socratic heritage, are its natural outcome. The Socrates
portrayed here is the same Socrates as already portrayed in Plato's
early dialogues. While not a Platonist, he is exhibited - to put it
in terms of an image made famous by this dialogue - as having been
Platonism's midwife. In a comprehensive rereading of the text,
Sedley tracks the ways in which Socrates is shown unwittingly
preparing the ground for Plato's mature doctrines, and reinterprets
the dialogue's individual arguments from this perspective. The book
is addressed to all readers interested in Plato, and does not
require knowledge of Greek.
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