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The Possibility of Inquiry - Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus (Hardcover)
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The Possibility of Inquiry - Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus (Hardcover)
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Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling
puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno's Paradox, which is first
formulated in Plato's Meno, challenges the very possibility of
inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according
to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and
what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew;
he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an
untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave
is able to discover through inquiry. Hence, contrary to the
paradox, inquiry is possible after all. Plato is not the only
philosopher to grapple with Meno's Paradox: so too do Aristotle,
the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus. How do their various
replies compare with one another, and with Plato's? How good are
any of their replies? In a fascinating fragment preserved in
Damascius' Commentary on the Phaedo, Plutarch briefly considers
these questions (though for obvious chronological reasons he
doesn't discuss Sextus). But Fine's book is the first full-length
systematic treatment of the paradox and responses to it. Among the
topics discussed are the nature of knowledge; how knowledge differs
from mere true belief; the nature of inquiry; varieties of
innatism; concepts and meaning; the scope and limits of experience.
The Possibility of Inquiry will be of interest to anyone interested
in ancient epistemology, in ancient philosophy, or in epistemology.
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