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Warum hat Plato die ‚ungeschriebene Lehre‛ nicht geschrieben? - Einige vorläufige Bemerkungen

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1992
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Ferber, R. (1992). Warum hat Plato die ‚ungeschriebene Lehre‛ nicht geschrieben? - Einige vorläufige Bemerkungen. In L. Rossetti (Ed.), Understanding the ’Phaedrus’ : Proceedings of the Second Symposium Platonicum (pp. 138–155). Academia Verlag.

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The article asks the question, “Why did Plato not write his ‘unwritten doctrines’?”, and finds the answer in the combination of two obstacles. The first derives from the limitations of the episteme available to an embodied soul about such subjects as the essence of the good. Even if the dialectician has access to a kind of knowledge, the lack of fit between the unchanging essences and the precarious logoi which aim to identify them (and allow others some measure of access to them) could never be fully overcome. At most, Socrates (or P

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  • Ferber, Rafael

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  • Rossetti, Livio

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Understanding the 'Phaedrus' : Proceedings of the Second Symposium Platonicum

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Second edition

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St. Augustin

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138

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155

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German

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1992

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2016-08-26

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International Plato Studies

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978-3-89665-663-6

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Repr. in: Rafael Ferber (2020), Platonische Aufsätze, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 147-165. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637601-011 English version with a letter of Ch. H. Kahn: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/261432/

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Ferber, R. (1992). Warum hat Plato die ‚ungeschriebene Lehre‛ nicht geschrieben? - Einige vorläufige Bemerkungen. In L. Rossetti (Ed.), Understanding the ’Phaedrus’ : Proceedings of the Second Symposium Platonicum (pp. 138–155). Academia Verlag.

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