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Socrates or on Human Knowledge: Bilingual Edition (Studies and Texts in Scepticism) (English and Italian Edition) (Studies and Texts in Scepticism, 8) by Simone Luzzatto (editor); Giuseppe Veltri (editor); Michela Torbidoni (editor); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Open Access __Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge__, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention, prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the cognitive process. This obliged him to come to the audacious conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement altogether. This work unfortunately had little success in Luzzatto’s lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not only its legacy in the history of philo

Who reads Socrates or on Human Knowledge: Bilingual Edition (Studies and Texts in Scepticism) (English and Italian Edition) (Studies and Texts in Scepticism, 8)?

Author

Simone Luzzatto (editor); Giuseppe Veltri (editor); Michela Torbidoni (editor); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (editor)

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter & Co

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110558357

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Judaism