
Written work
Theaetetus
Θεαίτητος

Written shortly after the death of the mathematician Theaetetus (369 BC), to whom the prologue pays tribute. Socrates, who compares himself to a midwife of souls, examines three definitions of knowledge — perception, true judgement, true judgement with an account — and refutes them all, discussing on the way Protagorean relativism and Heraclitean flux. It contains the famous digression on the philosopher and the claim that philosophy begins in wonder.
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Authorship note
Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.
Editions and translations
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English

Plato: Complete Works
Hackett, 1997
Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)
ISBN 0872203492
Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

The Theaetetus of Plato
Hackett, 1990
Translation: M. J. Levett, rev. Myles Burnyeat
ISBN 9780915144815

Theaetetus
Penguin Classics, 1987
Translation: Robin Waterfield
ISBN 9780140444506

Plato VII: Theaetetus, Sophist
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1977
Translation: Harold North Fowler
ISBN 9780674991378
Loeb Classical Library 123, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1921; reimpresión)
Plato
Theaetetus
The Conscious LibraryTheaetetus
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 4; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Teetetes o de la ciencia
The Conscious LibraryTeetetes o de la ciencia
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 3; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos V: Parménides, Teeteto, Sofista, Político
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos V: Parménides, Teeteto, Sofista, Político
Gredos, 1997
ISBN 9788424912796
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 117

Teeteto
Losada, 2012
ISBN 9789500394130
Other works by Plato
- Euthyphro · 395
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 380
- Cratylus · 385
- Sophist · 360
- Statesman · 360
- Parmenides · 370
- Philebus · 355
- Symposium · 380
- Phaedrus · 370
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Hipparchus
- Rival Lovers (Lovers)
- Theages
- Charmides · 390
- Laches · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Euthydemus · 385
- Protagoras · 390
- Gorgias · 387
- Meno · 385
- Hippias Major · 390
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (to Dionysius II)
- Letter II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- Letter IV (to Dion) · 357
- Letter V (to Perdiccas III of Macedon)
- Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)
- Letter VII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter VIII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter IX (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter X (to Aristodorus)
- Letter XI (to Laodamas)
- Letter XII (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter XIII (to Dionysius II)
- Definitions
- On Justice
- On Virtue
- Demodocus
- Sisyphus
- Halcyon
- Eryxias
- Axiochus
- Epigrams
Sources
- Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).
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