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Socrates on Self-Improvement - Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness (Hardcover)
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Socrates on Self-Improvement - Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness (Hardcover)
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What model of knowledge does Plato's Socrates use? In this book,
Nicholas D. Smith argues that it is akin to knowledge of a craft
which is acquired by degrees, rather than straightforward knowledge
of facts. He contends that a failure to recognize and identify this
model, and attempts to ground ethical success in contemporary
accounts of propositional or informational knowledge, have led to
distortions of Socrates' philosophical mission to improve himself
and others in the domain of practical ethics. He shows that the
model of craft-knowledge makes sense of a number of issues scholars
have struggled to understand, and makes a case for attributing to
Socrates a very sophisticated and plausible view of the
improvability of the human condition.
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