The possibility of inquiry : Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus Gail Fine.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 399 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199577392; 0199577390Subject(s): Plato. Meno | Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) | Philosophy, AncientDDC classification: 180.9495 LOC classification: B187.K7 | F56 2014Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Nalanda University Indian Philosophy and Culture | 180.9495 F4934 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 006221 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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, concepts and meaning, and the scope and limits of experience.
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