"So what brings things knowable truth and gives the you know the power of knowing, you can say it is the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood. And cause of science and truth, concíbela as knowable, and still being beautiful both knowledge and truth, if we consider the matter properly, we will have a Good Idea for something different and more beautiful than them. And as we said it was okay to take a light and related light by the sun but it would are wrong to believe that the sun is now similarly correct to think that both, truth and science are related to the right, but it would be wrong to believe that either they were the Good, and Well's condition is much more worthy of esteem. "
Plato, Republic, VI (508e1). Trad. C. Egger Lan.
Proposal .- Stresses in this text the terms that have a greater interest epistemological, and justifies the underlines.
1). "So what brings the truth of things knowable and gives the you know the power of knowing, you can say it is the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood . And cause of science and truth , concíbela as knowable, and still being beautiful both knowledge and truth , if properly consider the matter, we the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood for something different and more beautiful than them. And as we said it was okay to take a light and related light by the sun but it would be wrong to believe that they are the sun, is now similarly correct to think that both, truth and science, are related to Well, but it would be wrong to believe that one or the other were the Well, since the condition of Well is much more worthy of esteem. "
2). Rationale .-
underlined The term 'truth' appears in the text four times. The first time is directly related to other terms we have outlined, the term "Idea of \u200b\u200bGood", which is of course that is the most decisive (more important) in relation to the full content fragment for which we are interested. As stated in the text, which belongs to one of the most cited pieces Republic-VI, is the "Idea of \u200b\u200bGood" that "brings the truth knowable things." With this statement outlining Plato's epistemological scheme rising from the point of view of the subject, which has to raise his eyes to the "idea of \u200b\u200bGood" (striving dialectically), and down from an ontological perspective, because it is the Good idea which gives (the "grants") grades of truth that each of the realities to bear as their own (the house will be more true as you approach to the idea of \u200b\u200bhome that will take its place as a topos eidos eidetic, ie as a form). In the second stage means to the same 'truth' as \u200b\u200bcaused by the "Idea of \u200b\u200bGood", which would also cause of science. For this reason Socrates invites his opponent dialogical (Glaucon, probably) to conceive this truth as knowable, ie as something that can be known. It tells us in this passage under what conditions these 'knowable things "can become known and recognized as true (as true).
In a third and a fourth moment of truth is associated with beauty and knowledge, first to approve both realities while the two are presented as beautiful (yet still beautiful both truth and knowledge ") and immediately to signify as inferior to the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood, which are subsidiaries or dependent realities. The explanation of the dependent nature of both truth and knowledge in relation to the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood, which is superior to us with an allegory Plato explains more: light (ie the truth) and the view (ie knowledge ) are related and have a natural inclination to the Sun (ie, the Idea of \u200b\u200bthe Good), but not the Sun is that truth or knowledge, however much justified o se entiendan desde la previa existencia de la Idea del Bien, ni el uno (el conocimiento) ni la otra (la verdad) son la Idea del Bien, que es la meta y la justificación última del conocimiento.
¿Y cómo nos es dado avanzar hacia esa Idea del Bien? ¿Y hasta dónde podremos llegar en ese intento de aproximación? En este fragmento no hay elementos suficientes como para ensayar una respuesta a esta pregunta.
Una última observación: en las últimas líneas hemos subrayado también 'Bien' como término aislado. Pero entendemos que en esas tres últimas ocasiones en las que tal término aparece, éste se refiere directamente a la misma "Idea for Good Foundation, which is the term that establishes its true meaning (its semantic range).
Una última observación: en las últimas líneas hemos subrayado también 'Bien' como término aislado. Pero entendemos que en esas tres últimas ocasiones en las que tal término aparece, éste se refiere directamente a la misma "Idea for Good Foundation, which is the term that establishes its true meaning (its semantic range).
