PHIL 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Doxa, Michel Foucault, Episteme
9 Aug 2019
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In greek, it is commonly translated by opinion. Parmenides when presenting and contrasting the doctrine of opinion, doxa, as appearance, illusion or deception, with the truth. Plato presents doxa as a personal opinion, and sometimes as a general or common opinion. It also gives doxa the sense of glory, that is, as the good opinion in which one has a person. For plato the doxa is a phenomenal knowledge and, consequently, according to him, misleading. For plato, the doxa comprises two degrees: imagination and faith or belief. According to hursserl the doxa or belief occupies a unique place. The so-called dox modalities are not doxa species; they have a rational character that is based on a protodoxa. Plato criticized the doxa, but, above all, he despised those who made false knowledge and the appearance of wisdom a means of personal gain or social descent. He called these characters "doxophores," "those whose words in the agora are faster than their thoughts. "
