Existence and Knowledge

Existence and Knowledge

Plato and Heidegger’s Doctrine of Truth

Document Type : Research Article

Author
Babak Abbasi
PhD student in Western Philosophy, Iranian Institute of Philosophy and Research
Abstract
According to Heidegger, an unsaid transformation about the essence of truth took place in Plato’s philosophy; in terms of which the Greek  aletheia (i.e.Truth = unhiddenness) replaced by Plato’s definition of truth as correspondence (correctness of representation). In this essay, after explaining Heidegger’s interpretation of the “allegory of the cave”, I will give an account of Friedlander’s criticism on that interpretation. Finally, I will try to give a sound meaning of Heidegger’s original idea.
Keywords
Heidegger
Friedlander
Truth
Unhidenness
Subjectivism
منابع
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