SOME ISSUES OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN SANKARA AND PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY (COMPARATIVE RESEARCH WORK)

BALDOO DAGZMAA, BAATAR MUNKHJAVKHLAN

ABSTRACT

Researchers, how we go into the deepness of great philosophers’ thought, we still find
precious and sophisticated ideas that make us to think. In this paper, we try to elucidate
the theory of knowledge in the philosophy of Sankara and Plato and analyze similarities
in their teachings. We aimed to clarify their views of knowledge and we grounded in
a historical and hermeneutical methodology. Both of these philosophers’ views are
difficult to separate between their epistemological views and their ontology. We propose,
first of all to analyze their philosophy and bring out differences and similarities of their
view in terms of the means of knowledge. We examined the means of knowledge and
view about the reality in their teaching. We consider that the intuition is the highest
knowledge that reveals the absolute reality, according to their philosophy and this view
is methodologically similar to each other. As the authors of this article, we have reached
the conclusion that there are some similarities between their thoughts and idealists in
general. However, we still need to provide an insight to degrees of knowledge taken
into account. The concept of error, mental activity, realm of knowledge and infallibility
specially.