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Ep. 18: Plato on Knowledge

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Episode for Purchase: Discussing Plato’s Theatetus and Meno. In the Theaetetus, Plato considers and rejects a series of mostly very lame conceptions of knowledge and replaces them at the end with… NOTHING. In the Meno, knowledge is “remembrance” (maybe).”

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Category: Podcast Episodes Tags: epistemology, Plato, rationalism, Socrates
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The second installment in our initial run of epistemology episodes, representing rationalism.

What can we know? We the Plantonic dialogues Theatetus and Meno.

We returned to Plato to give him a more thorough treatment than we did in Episode 1. The Theaetetus was a slog, where Plato considers and rejects a series of images of knowledge and never really puts forward one of his own. In the Meno, knowledge is described as "remembrance."

Listen to the episode preview. Become a PEL Citizen and get your free copy here. You can also purchase this episode through the iTunes store. Read more about our vintage episodes.

Running Time: 2 hrs, 18 min. Recorded: Apr. 4, 2010. Participants: Mark, Wes, Seth.

As a bonus, your purchase includes a high-bitrate mp3 of the song that concludes the episode, "Obvious Boy," from Mark's 2000 album So Whaddaya Think?

You'll also get 8 pages of annotated geometric diagrams Seth put together to demonstrate Plato's story of the slave boy in the Meno.

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  1. PREVIEW-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog – June 18, 2015

    […] is a 34-minute preview of our vintage 2 hr, 18-minute episode which you can buy at partiallyexaminedlife.com/store or get for free with PEL Citizenship (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership, and after you're […]

  2. Philosophy of History Part I: The Enlightenment | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog – July 16, 2015

    […] which we call scientific, and which we might contrast with deduction based on logic, the method of Plato, Spinoza, and Descartes. The inheritors of the first method we call empiricists, and of the second […]

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