The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus

Unhiddenness and Being; the Question Concerning the Essence of Untruth -- An Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus with Respect to the Question of the Essence of Untruth -- Preliminary Considerations -- The Question Concerning the Essence of [characters not reproducible]: Man's Attack on the Self-evidences of His Self-understanding -- Fundamental Content of the Greek Concept of Knowledge: Fusion of Know-how and Seeing Having-Present of That Which Is Present -- Beginning of the Discussion of Theaetetus' First Answer: [characters not reproducible] Is [characters not reproducible]. Critical Demarcation of the Essence of Perception -- A[characters not reproducible] as [characters not reproducible]. The Self-showing in Its Presencing -- The Senses: Only Passage-way, Not Themselves What Perceives in Human Perception -- The Soul as the Relationship that Unifies the Perceivable and Holds It Open -- Colour and Sound: Both Perceived at Once in [characters not reproducible] -- Stepwise Unfolding of Perceiving in All Its Connections -- Step One: Perceiving of Beings as Such -- A Strange 'Excess' in the Perceived over and above the Sensory Given: 'Being' and Other Characters as the Necessary but Unnoticed Co-perceived -- Step Two: Inquiry into What Perceives the Excess in the Perceived -- The Sense-Organs: No Passage-way to the Common in Everything Perceived -- The Soul as What Views the [characters not reproducible] in [characters not reproducible] -- Step Three: The Soul's Relation to Being as Striving for Being.