The possibility of inquiry : Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus

The possibility of inquiry : Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus / Gail Fine.

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...

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Main Author: Fine, Gail (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Plato.
Plato
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
Philosophy, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy, Ancient
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Table of Contents:
  • Plato's Meno. The origins of the problem ; Meno's questions and Socrates' dilemma ; Socrates' three-stage reply : the first and second stages ; The third stage : the second statement of the theory of recollection
  • Aristotle and after. Aristotelian inquiry ; Epicurean inquiry ; Stoic inquiry ; Plutarch's account ; Skeptical inquiry 1 : Sextus and the Stoics ; Skeptical inquiry 2 : Sextus and the Epicureans.

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