Doing Philosophy
Julia Annas, 22 November 1990
The ‘Theaetetus’ of Plato
translated by M.J. Levett and Myles Burnyeat.
Hackett, 351 pp., £20, September 1990,0 915144 82 4 Show More
translated by M.J. Levett and Myles Burnyeat.
Hackett, 351 pp., £20, September 1990,
“... The common reproach against me is that I am always asking questions of other people but never express my own views about anything, because there is no wisdom in me; and that is true enough.’ So says Socrates at 150c of Plato’s Theaetetus, presenting himself as the barren midwife who can help deliver others of beliefs – in this case about knowledge – and test them by argument, but who does so ad hominem, uncommitted to a philosophical view of his own ... ”