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Theaetetus
Θεαίτητος
Shortly before his trial Socrates asks the young mathematician Theaetetus what knowledge is and examines three answers: perception, true belief and true belief with an account. Here he describes himself as a midwife of souls, son of the midwife Phaenarete, who helps others give birth to their ideas and tests whether the offspring are viable. The dialogue ends in aporia, with Socrates on his way to the King Archon's porch.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.
Editions and translations
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English
Theaetetus
Penguin Classics, 1987
Translation: Robin A. H. Waterfield
ISBN 9780140444506
Socrates
Theaetetus
The Conscious LibraryTheaetetus
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
Teetetes o de la ciencia (argumento y facsímil)
The Conscious LibraryTeetetes o de la ciencia (argumento y facsímil)
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 3 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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