The possibility of inquiry : Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus /
Examines Meno's paradox, which challenges the possibility of inquiry, and compares replies from Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, in a consideration of the nature of knowledge and justification, the difference between knowledge and belief, varieties in innatism, conce...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Plato's Meno. The origins of the problem ; Meno's questions and Socrates' dilemma ; Socrates' three-stage reply : the first and second stages ; The third stage : the second statement of the theory of recollection
- Aristotle and after. Aristotelian inquiry ; Epicurean inquiry ; Stoic inquiry ; Plutarch's account ; Skeptical inquiry 1 : Sextus and the Stoics ; Skeptical inquiry 2 : Sextus and the Epicureans.
