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Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato (Hardcover)
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Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato (Hardcover)
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Socrates famously claimed that he knew nothing, and that wisdom
consisted in awareness of one's ignorance. In Ignorance, Irony and
Knowledge in Plato, Kevin Crotty makes the case for the centrality
and fruitfulness of Socratic ignorance throughout Plato's
philosophical career. Knowing that you don't know is more than a
maxim of intellectual humility; Plato shows how it lies at the
basis of all the virtues, and inspires dialogue, the best and most
characteristic activity of the philosophical life. Far from being
simply a lack or deficit, ignorance is a necessary constituent of
genuine knowledge. Crotty explores the intricate ironies involved
in the paradoxical relationship of ignorance and knowledge. He
argues, further, that Plato never abandoned the historical Socrates
to pursue his own philosophical agenda. Rather, his philosophical
career can be largely understood as a progressive deepening of his
appreciation of Socratic ignorance. Crotty presents Plato as a
forerunner of the scholarly interest in ignorance that has gathered
force in a wide variety of disciplines over the last 20 years.
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