An Innovating approach to Plato's philosophy.

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 - and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research -, 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.

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About the Author
Franco Trabattoni is Full Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Milan. He is editor of Methexis, International Journal for Ancient Philosophy.

Reviews

Trabattoni is to be thanked for seeking out an English translator in order to make his work more widely available.
Lloyd P. Gerson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.10.20

Book Information
ISBN 9789462700598
Author Franco Trabattoni
Format Hardback
Page Count 326
Imprint Leuven University Press
Publisher Leuven University Press