Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET July 2016 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Assertion (A): Platonic theory of Ideas is based upon the theory of knowledge.
Reason (R): For him, knowledge is perception.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false ✓ Correct
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (C) A is true, but R is false — The assertion is true but the reason is false, because Plato's Theory of Ideas does rest on his theory of knowledge yet he denies that knowledge is mere perception.
Explanation
★The assertion is true but the reason is false, because Plato's Theory of Ideas does rest on his theory of knowledge yet he denies that knowledge is mere perception.
★For Plato genuine knowledge, episteme, is of the unchanging Forms, while perception of the changing world yields only opinion, doxa.
★He argues that if knowledge were mere perception we would lose all knowledge the moment we stopped perceiving, which is absurd.
★Knowledge for Plato is recollection, anamnesis, the soul recovering truths it already holds, as shown in the Meno.
★The view that knowledge is perception belongs to Protagoras and the Sophists, whom Plato refutes in the Theaetetus.
★The doctrine of recollection in the Meno and the refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetus are the companion texts that fix Plato's rejection of perception as knowledge.
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