Opining Beauty Itself - The Ordinary Person and Plato''s Forms

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

About the author

Naomi Reshotko is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. She is the author of Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Reshotko, Reshotko Naomi
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781438490458
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9045-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy; SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; European History, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge