The Essence of Truth On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus

The Essence of Truth On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus

by Martin Heidegger

Publisher
Continuum
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2002

Overview

Unhiddenness and Being; the Question Concerning the Essence of Untruth -- An Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus with Respect to the Question of the Essence of Untruth -- Preliminary Considerations -- The Question Concerning the Essence of [characters not reproducible]: Man's Attack on the Self-evidences of His Self-understanding -- Fundamental Content of the Greek Concept of Knowledge: Fusion of Know-how and Seeing Having-Present of That Which Is Present -- Beginning of the Discussion of Theaetetus' First Answer: [characters not reproducible] Is [characters not reproducible]. Critical Demarcation of the Essence of Perception -- A[characters not reproducible] as [characters not reproducible]. The Self-showing in Its Presencing -- The Senses: Only Passage-way, Not Themselves What Perceives in Human Perception -- The Soul as the Relationship that Unifies the Perceivable and Holds It Open -- Colour and Sound: Both Perceived at Once in [characters not reproducible] -- Stepwise Unfolding of Perceiving in All Its Connections -- Step One: Perceiving of Beings as Such -- A Strange 'Excess' in the Perceived over and above the Sensory Given: 'Being' and Other Characters as the Necessary but Unnoticed Co-perceived -- Step Two: Inquiry into What Perceives the Excess in the Perceived -- The Sense-Organs: No Passage-way to the Common in Everything Perceived -- The Soul as What Views the [characters not reproducible] in [characters not reproducible] -- Step Three: The Soul's Relation to Being as Striving for Being.

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