Intuition in Plato and the Platonic tradition.
In this paper, I examine what is for Plato and all those who follow in his footsteps the ne plus ultra of cognition, namely, intuition (nous or noēsis). This is the paradigm of cognition, meaning that all forms of human (and even animal) cognition are inferior manifestations of this. Intuition is me...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 579 - 597 |
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