Plato: Introduction & Theory of Knowledge - Classical Western Philosophy (Philosophy)

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Introduction: Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher who was the pupil of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle.
He is considered as a towering figure in the history of Greek and Western philosophy.
He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (at Athens) which is known to be the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Aristotle studied at his Academy for about twenty two years before he founded his own school, Lyceum.
Literature: Plato is regarded to be the innovator of the dialectic form of philosophy.
He wrote a number of literary works. A total number of thirty-five dialogues have been ascribed to Plato.His literary works are called, “Dialogues.”
Some of his famous dialogues are; Meno, Crito, Republic, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, Sophists, Theaetetus, Timaeus, etc.
His dialogues are classified into three stages.
The three stages are;
Early Dialogues: Apology, Gorgias, Crito, Protagoras, etc. They deal with his positive epistemological teachings. They also give an elaborate account of the historical teachings of Socrates, his master.
Middle Dialogues: Parmenides, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Symposium, Theaetetus, etc. They also deal with his positive epistemological teachings, for example, the theory of Forms, the nature of Knowledge, Justice, etc.
Late Dialogues: Sophists, Timaeus, Laws, etc. These are regarded to be difficult or challenging pieces of work of philosophy.
Theory of Knowledge:
Plato’s epistemology cannot be derived from his one single work because his epistemology deals with two subgroups.
The two sub-groups are 1. Positive epistemology and 2. Negative epistemology.
Under positive epistemology, Plato deals with the theories and ideas regarding the nature of knowledge, nature of truth and reality, nature of justice, nature of good, the validity of knowledge and truth, etc.
One of his dialogue which deals with positive epistemology is the Republic.
On the other hand, under negative epistemology, Plato deals with the theories and ideas regarding the nature of false knowledge, the nature of un-truth, the nature of error, etc.
One of his dialogue which deals with negative epistemology is, Theaetetus.
Hence, in-order to understand the theory of knowledge or epistemology of Plato it is very important to understand and take into consideration all his dialogues.

Introduction @0:05
Literature @0:38
His Dialogues are classified into Three Stage @1:06
Theory of Knowledge @2:01
Conjectural Knowledge @3:19
Practical Knowledge @4:22
Hypothetical Knowledge @5:43
Rational Knowledge @6:27
The Nature of Knowledge @7:02
Questions @8:19

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