Qual è il significato del Teeteto platonico? In margine a una nuova traduzione commentata del dialogo

According to the methodological principle for which it is not necessary to assume that Plato would reveal his own views in all of his works when he actually wrote them, in his new translation and comment of the Theaetetus Franco Ferrari offers a neo-cornfordian analysis of the dialogue: the Theaetetus has an aporetical outcome because ideas are not mentioned and because Plato combines doxa and episteme in a way that is not to be found in other dialogues. The reason behind this choice is, in Ferrari's interpretation, that the Theaetetus has indeed a peirastic and controversial character. This study aims to prove, on the contrary, that the way in which doxa and episteme are combined in the Theaetetus is not opposed to what we find in other dialogues. Plato's epistemological position is largely consistent - from the Phaedo, to the Meno, to the Symposium, to the Republic up to the Timaeus - and claims that human knowledge has access to truth, but not to the undeniable evidence that truth has been attained once and for all. This explains the aporetic outcome of the Theaetetus: for the object of this dialogue is, undoubtedly, a certain and unmistakable episteme.