Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato)
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ancient philosophy
Athenian Stranger
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Beachy Head
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Common Language
creative
Demarcation Line
dialectical method
Direct Object Construction
Discarnate Condition
epistemology
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Feasible Enterprise
Good Life
Heraclitean Doctrines
Intellectual Midwife
Intellectual Possession
intelligible
Intelligible Principle
interpretation of platonic doctrines
knowledge and belief distinction
Likely Stories
man
Midwife's Apprentice
Nocturnal Council
Normal Percipient
physical
Physical Extension
plato's
Plato's Mind
Plato's Thought
Predatory Mammal
principle
reason
Relation Ship
street
theory of forms
thing
thought
Timeless
Vice Versa
virtue ethics
Vulgar Hedonism
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415751537
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife’s apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable account of the author’s two volume magnum opus, An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines. An accessible and lucid introduction to Plato’s ideas is provided which nonetheless challenges traditional interpretations. In particular the author is concerned to offer an interpretation of the significance of what Plato said. The chapters are arranged by topic, for ease of comprehension.
