Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus

by Gail Fine

Book Overview

Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno's Paradox, which is first formulated in Plato's Meno, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew; he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822642
• ISBN13: 9780198822646
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"