Professor Richard Smith r.d.smith@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
Professor Richard Smith r.d.smith@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
M. Papastephanou
Editor
T. Strand
Editor
A. Pirrie
Editor
What might be called the mainstream of western philosophy has sought to discover clear and distinct ideas on which accounts of truth, goodness and justice can be built with confidence. Plato has often been seen as central to this tradition, and even as the founder of it. In this paper I suggest that we should read him rather as a ‘light’ or ‘edifying’ thinker than as a ‘systematic’ one; that he offers us a kind of therapy, a way of dealing with the finitude of our human condition, especially our tendency to what I here call knowingness. To read him in this fashion requires us to engage with the many layers of his dialogues and to appreciate the distinctive kind of irony to be found in them.
Smith, R. (2014). Re-reading Plato: the slow cure for knowledge. In M. Papastephanou, T. Strand, & A. Pirrie (Eds.), Philosophy as a lived experience : navigating through dichotomies of thought and action (23-37). Lit
Online Publication Date | Feb 20, 2014 |
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Publication Date | Feb 20, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Jun 2, 2014 |
Pages | 23-37 |
Series Title | Studies on education. |
Book Title | Philosophy as a lived experience : navigating through dichotomies of thought and action. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1678775 |
Publisher URL | http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90290-0 |
Additional Information | Series: Studies on Education, Bd. 3. |
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