A retórica política em detrimento do conhecimento: O atual anticientificismo pensado a partir do conceito de episteme no diálogo Teeteto de Platão

The question proposed in this article is assumed to be essential safeguard the truth value of knowledge and scientific research. demonstrates that, although presenting itself as an aporetic text, Theaetetus dialogue contributes greatly our time think critically about its unequivocal relationship with politics rhetoric, so that it became possible philosophically problematize anti-scientificism present contemporary context. It concluded episteme Plato goes beyond limits considered by aisthesis (sense) we can only effectively consider when considering really real, is, forms (eidos) categorize intelligible. Nevertheless, provisional definition “knowledge a true opinion accompanied rational explanation” still imposes important paradigm distinguish science (gnosis) from pseudoscience. Because, not based “on impressions reach soul through body”, reasoning imperative, aspect seems, usually appears fortuitous element uses immediate negationist political therefore, overmuch anti-scientific.