1st Edition

Plato's Theory of Knowledge

By Francis MacDonald Cornford Copyright 1935
    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume V of ten on a series on Ancient Philosophy that includes the works of Aristotle, Plato and the history of Greek philosophy. Originally published in 1935, this study looks ‘the ‘Theaetetus’ and the ‘Sophist’ of Plato translated with a running commentary.

    Preface, Introduction, The Theaetetus, I The Claim of Perception to be Knowledge, II The Claim of True Judgement to be Knowledge III The Claim of True Belief accompanied by an account or explanation to be Knowledge. The Sophist, I The Worlds of Reality and Appearance II The Combination of Forms and the Problem of Negative Statements III False Speaking and Thinking

    Biography

    Francis MacDonald Cornford