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Sjećanje i znanje
Recollection and Knowledge

Author(s): Aleksandar Nikitović
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: recollection; knowledge; virtue (arete); Ancient Greek ethics; theory of ideas

Summary/Abstract: Ancient Greek ethics held in its heritage contradictory relation in under- standing of virtue as a key notion on which were founded polis and politics. Sharp- ening and revealing of this contradiction was mostly contribution of the sophistic movement, which by rational gauge observed philosophically not enough clarified topics of the Ancient Greek worldview. To solve contradiction arisen from tradi- tional viewpoint premised on the principle that virtue cannot be taught and stand- point that virtue is connected to knowledge, Plato introduces notion of recollection. Recollection becomes focal point in Plato’s overcoming of this contradiction. He analyses two shapes of recollection, universal, but only potential and the active one, that leads to the theory of ideas and defines what is virtue.

  • Issue Year: 22/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 207-218
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian