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Uma leitura straussiana do Teeteto, 152a
Fecha
2016-12-12Registro en:
SOUZA, Roberto Solino de. Uma leitura straussiana do Teeteto, 152a. 2016. 84f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Filosofia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.
Autor
Souza, Roberto Solino de
Resumen
This work examines the possibility that Socrates is attacking a straw man in the
Theaetetus, 152a, when he explains Protagoras's dictum that “man is the measure of
all things” as embracing a vulgar form of relativism which takes knowledge as being
merely perception. It begins with Leo Strauss’s suggestion that the great writers of
the past made use of a peculiar technique, that he names metaphorically as “writing
between the lines,” aiming to protect their heterodox views from political persecution
while expressing openly other views that conform to generally accepted opinion. It
seeks to demonstrate that Strauss’s suggestion is a valid one and that writing
between the lines was recognized throughout most Philosophy’s history and only
recently forgotten. It also seeks to clarify Strauss’s suggestion and identify a minimal
set of rules to guide the reading of that Theaetetus’s passage. In the end, it considers
that reading between the lines of the said passage can point to the conclusion that
the examined hypothesis is correct and suggests the so called “Digression” (172c–
177c) as a starting point from where to begin a Straussian interpretation of the dialog
as a whole.