Truth and value in Plato's Republic

Philosophy 88 (2):197-218 (2013)
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This paper is a reaction to a recent article by Raphael Woolf, the drift of which is that, according to the Republic , truth as such is not important. I am not persuaded and in what follows I try to get clear about why

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Recent work on epistemic value.Duncan Pritchard - 2007 - American Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2):85 - 110.
Misology and Truth.R. Woolf - 2007 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 23:1-16.

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