Opining Beauty Itself The Ordinary Person and Plato’s Forms

Opining Beauty Itself: The Ordinary Person and Plato’s Forms (Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy) by Naomi Reshotko
English | October 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1438490453 | True EPUB/PDF | 266 pages | 0.6/2.3 MB
In Opining Beauty Itself, Naomi Reshotko examines Plato’s discussions of epistemological states that fall short of knowledge. Wary that interpretations of Plato’s epistemology often omit a detailed analysis of the way he deploys the epistemological concepts that are inferior to, but often prerequisites for, knowledge, Reshotko argues that we must understand these inferior prerequisite states, especially belief (doxa), before we can understand what Plato thought about knowledge. Examining how recollection provides what is required for inquiry, Reshotko argues that recollection does not afford doxa-let alone what contemporary philosophers call ‘true belief.’ Rather, recollection is responsible for an ability to refer that is a condition for every kind of doxa and for knowledge.