Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Maryam Soltani Kouhanestani ¹
• Majid Sadremajles ²

¹ PhD Candidate of Philosophy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

² Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Tabriz , Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

The being of intuitive knowledge and it’s meaning have been conflicted between plato’s interpreters in the all times. some of them haven’t accepted such knowledge at all and those who accepted that, are in disagreement between being rational or mystic such a knowledge.



This paper is attempt to present that knowledge on plato’s view is not only intellectual argument and the higher than it there is a intellectual vision; because on the one hand, for plato intellectual perception of things means perception of common characters of them which they represent in the form of judgments and propositions. On the other hand, if everything is explained in the form of intellectual explanation by the Ideas and explanation of the Ideas themselves is by the agent and final cause of the Good, hence there will not be such an explanation about the Good; because It is a Good and Beautiful in itself. Then Its knowledge is higher than intellectual perception in the form of conceptual and general judgments. Its knowledge is direct and a vision that can not express in the form ofproposition.



this intuition although is a sudden and short knowledge; but according to plato,it is stable and definite and it’s based on dialectical process. We can not say and write anything about its object; but we can only experience it with the help of leader and by direct illumination. It belongs to philosopher, not anybody; .

Keywords

• Plato
• knowledge
• intuition
• The Good
• vision
• dialectic
• recollection