LEADER 04253 am 22006013u 450 001 9910365049803321 005 20231110221553.0 010 $a3-11-055760-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110557602 035 $a(CKB)4100000009185785 035 $a(OAPEN)1006615 035 $a(DE-B1597)486990 035 $a(OCoLC)1114911778 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110557602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5428863 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5428863 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32999 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009185785 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSocrates, or on Human Knowledge $eBilingual Edition /$fSimone Luzzatto; Michela Torbidoni, Giuseppe Veltri 210 $aBerlin/Boston$cDe Gruyter$d2019 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (571) 225 0 $aStudies and Texts in Scepticism ;$v8 311 $a3-11-055835-1 311 $a3-11-055753-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tSynopsis of Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge -- $tChronology -- $tNote on the Text -- $tSerenissimo prencipe et eccellentissimo collegio -- $tAl benigno lettore -- $tArgomento -- $tAccusa contra socrate everssore dell'humane dottrine -- $tDiscolpa di socrate -- $tSi propone ciò che si deve deliberare circa socrate -- $tThe Deceit of the Senses: Sight and the Mirror -- $tWhat Does Philosopher à l'antique Mean to Simone Luzzatto? -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of Names and Places -- $tIndex of Sources -- $tIndex of Major Topics 330 $aSocrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention, prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the cognitive process. This obliged him to come to the audacious conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement altogether.This work unfortunately had little success in Luzzatto's lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not only its legacy in the history of philosophical though, but also of understanding the circumstances surrounding the writing of his Socrates.The present edition will be a preliminary study aiming to shed some light on the philosophical and historical value of this work's translation, indeed it will provide a broader readership with the opportunity to access this immensely complicated work and also to grasp some aspects of the composite intellectual framework and admirable modernity of Venetian Jewish culture in the ghetto. 410 0$aStudies and Texts in Scepticism 606 $aJudaism$2bicssc 606 $aJewish studies$2bicssc 610 $aJewish Scepticism. 610 $aSimone Luzzatto. 610 $aSocrates. 615 7$aJudaism 615 7$aJewish studies 676 $a149.73 700 $aLuzzatto$b Simone, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0617139 702 $aTorbidoni$b Michela, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aVeltri$b Giuseppe, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 712 02$aDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910365049803321 996 $aSocrates, or on Human Knowledge$92160627 997 $aUNINA