Embodied Knowledge and Platonic Epistemology

A number of texts within the Platonic corpus suggest that knowledge may not be possible while the soul is embodied (Phaedrus 274a; Republic 531c; Timaeus 29c). Not surprisingly, some scholars have concluded that Plato does not believe souls can have knowledge while enmattered (Gerson, 2003, p. 61-62...

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