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Theaetetus

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 166 pages

Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues, in which Socrates and the young Theaetetus inquire into the nature of knowledge. It examines what knowledge is and how it relates to perception and judgment. It is worth listening to for its foundational philosophical questions and its lively dialogue form.

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THEAETETUS
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character
that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be
determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus,
like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with
his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of
style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity
of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting
of the points of view, are characteristic of his best

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Contents

  1. THEAETETUS
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. THEAETETUS
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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