Trabattoni, Franco <br/><br/>
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology 

 -  Leuven University Press  20160321 
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<br/><br/> Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>EPE_AMP 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.11116/EPE_AMP  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History of Western philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Philosophy Classical Greek philosophy intellectual history