Modern philosophy Quote by Lee Braver

“We saw in the preceding section how Heidegger identifies Plato’s transformation of A2 Un-concealment Truth into R2 Correspondence Truth with its concomitant R4 Bivalence…

— Lee Braver

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

“Plato (...) defined knowledge as "justified true belief". To his mind, you could only claim to know something if A) it was true; and…

— Kathryn Schulz

“In a move that is at odds with what I am calling the Unmooring thesis, Heidegger wants to show that modern philosophy is the…

— Lee Braver

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that ideas are…

— G.K. Chesterton

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the…

— Max Horkheimer

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of…

— Gilles Deleuze