Theaetetus. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791221374322

Theaetetus. E-book. Formato EPUB. <b>Theaetetus by Plato</b>&nbsp;is one of&nbsp;Plato&#39;s&nbsp;dialogues&nbsp;concerning the&nbsp;nature of knowledge, written&nbsp;<i>circa</i>&nbsp;369 BCE.<br />In this dialogue set in a&nbsp;wrestling school, Socrates and&nbsp;Theaetetus&nbsp;discuss three definitions of&nbsp;knowledge: knowledge as nothing but&nbsp;<i>perception</i>, knowledge as&nbsp;<i>true judgment</i>, and, finally, knowledge as a&nbsp;<i>true judgment with an account.</i>&nbsp;Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory.<br /><br />Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited from discovering what he does not know, and that he may be better able to approach the topic in the future. The conversation ends with Socrates&#39; announcement that he has to go to court to face a&nbsp;criminal indictment.<br /><br />Socrates thinks that the idea that knowledge is perception must be identical in meaning, if not in actual words, to&nbsp;Protagoras&#39; famous maxim &quot;Man is the measure of all things.&quot; Socrates wrestles to conflate the two ideas, and stirs in for good measure a claim about&nbsp;Homer&nbsp;being the captain of a team of&nbsp;Heraclitan&nbsp;flux theorists. Socrates dictates a complete textbook of logical fallacies to the bewildered Theaetetus.<br /><br />When Socrates tells the child that he (Socrates) will later be smaller&nbsp;<i>without losing an inch</i>&nbsp;because Theaetetus will have grown relative to him, the child complains of dizziness (155c). In an often quoted line, Socrates says with delight that &quot;wonder (thaumazein) belongs to the philosopher&quot;. He admonishes the boy to be patient and bear with his questions, so that his hidden beliefs may be yanked out into the bright light of day.