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Socrates, or on Human Knowledge - Bilingual Edition (Hardcover)
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Socrates, or on Human Knowledge - Bilingual Edition (Hardcover)
Series: Studies and Texts in Scepticism
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Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is
the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of
a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human
certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a
piece of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to
demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to
acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved
this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory
gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the
divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention,
prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the
cognitive process. This obliged him to come to the audacious
conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning
human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement
altogether. This work unfortunately had little success in
Luzzatto's lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The
absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of
his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not
only its legacy in the history of philosophical though, but also of
understanding the circumstances surrounding the writing of his
Socrates. The present edition will be a preliminary study aiming to
shed some light on the philosophical and historical value of this
work's translation, indeed it will provide a broader readership
with the opportunity to access this immensely complicated work and
also to grasp some aspects of the composite intellectual framework
and admirable modernity of Venetian Jewish culture in the ghetto.
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