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Teksten bekleed met autoriteit. Een model voor de analyse van epistemische autoriteit in commentaartradities

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© 2017 by Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. All rights reserved. 'Authority' is a term widely used in scholarly debate, including the history of philosophy. However, what is meant by this term is not always clear and the concept is not very well defined. One reason for this is certainly that the phenomenon itself is complex and the corresponding terms are used with a degree of latitude. This makes it difficult to adequately compare and connect the insights that various case studies have to offer. For historians of philosophy, it is thus important to get a sufficient grasp of the concept of authority. This is even more urgent when one studies commentary traditions, in which secondary texts are written in virtue of the existence of texts clad with high authority. Our article combines historical textual research with insights from epistemology, thus providing a discussion of the concept of authority and its importance in textual traditions. We propose a descriptive model that can be used for examining epistemic authority in historical texts. An example from ancient Platonism serves to show both the complexity of the phenomenon and the clarifications that our approach may offer.
Tijdschrift: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
ISSN: 0040-750X
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Pagina's: 277 - 294
Jaar van publicatie:2017
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Authors from:Higher Education
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