Self-Knowledge in the Alcibiades I, the Apology of Socrates, and the Theaetetus: The Limits of the First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives

Knowledge of oneself is not easy to attain. Plato was aware of this and in this paper we aim to show that he suspected then, like psychologists know now, that ones introspective capacity to attain knowledge of oneself is very much restricted and that we must rely on the other as a source of such knowledge. We further argue that, for Plato, this knowledge is not easily achieved given not only the shortcomings of the first-person perspective but also the limitations of the third-person one.

Información de Publicación

Autores:

Leandro De Brasi

Institución: Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Facultad: Filosofía y Humanidades
Unidad: Filosofía

Boeri, Marcelo

Institución: PUC
Facultad: Instituto de Filosofía
Unidad: Filosofía

Revista:

Universum, Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Talca

Año:

2017

Mes:

Diciembre

Lugar:

Talca

Número:

1

Páginas:

17-38