Epistemology after Protagoras Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus

Zusatztext a balanced book! well-argued! rich in references to the secondary literature! with fresh and challenging readings of important issues in Greek epistemology Klappentext Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines his challenge to the possibility of knowledge and truth, and how the three most important philosophers of the next generation, Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, responded to it. Zusammenfassung Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines his challenge to the possibility of knowledge and truth, and how the three most important philosophers of the next generation, Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, responded to it.

a balanced book, well-argued, rich in references to the secondary literature, with fresh and challenging readings of important issues in Greek epistemology

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Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines his challenge to the possibility of knowledge and truth, and how the three most important philosophers of the next generation, Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, responded to it.

Contenu

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Protagoras' Aletheia

• 3: Protagoras and relativism

• 4: Self-refutation and contradiction

• 5: The Secret Doctrine in Plato's Theaetetus

• 6: Aristotle on Protagoras and the Theaetetus

• 7: Aristotle on Protagoras and early conceptions of thinking and perceiving

• 8: Democritus on appearances and perception: the early sources

• 9: Democritus on knowledge and the senses: the late sources

• 10: Conclusion