Socrates on self-improvement: knowledge, virtue, and happiness
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| adam_text | Contents Preface P.i P.2 P-3 P.4 1 Socrates as Exemplar 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 1 3 5 6 7 13 16 18 19 21 Introduction Is Socrates Not the First? Only Socrates Being an Artisan and Performing the Functions of a Craft How Socrates Performs the Craft of Politics Summary and Conclusion Socratic Motivational Intellectualism 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.7 3.8 ix xii xv xvii 1 An Inconsistency in Plato’s Portrait? Plato’s Socratic Hagiography: A (Very) Brief Review of the Evidence Socratic Virtue Intellectualism The Socratic Disclaimer of Knowledge A Way Out: It Is Not “All or Nothing” Craft and Definitional Knowledge The Relative Importance of Different Skills Two Alternatives Considered Summary and Conclusion Socrates as Apprentice at Virtue 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3 page ix The Origins ofThis Project Intended Readership and Structure of the Book Methodological Issues Texts, Translations, Acknowledgments Introduction Socratic Pragmatism Eudaimonism Egoism? Making Motivational Intellectualism Explicit The Denial of Akrasia Nonrational Desires Emotions and Appetites v 21 22 23 29 31 34 36 36 37 38 40 42 43 44 47
vi Contents 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Persuasion Punishment The Gadfly’s Sting The Pain of Shame The Damage That Is Done by Wrongdoing 4 Socratic Ignorance 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.XI 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 5 Introduction Types of Ignorance How to Tell That Someone Is Ignorant The Sources of Ignorance The Socratic Elenchos Elenchos and the Rational Remediation of Ignorance Definitional Knowledge and the Improvability of Epistemic Success Elenchos and the Nonrational Sources of Ignorance Deliberation in Ignorance Rational Preference The Threat of Skepticism (and Practical Paralysis) Reining in the Problem of Ignorance An Important Text What Socrates Believes Socrates’ Reasons The Lessons of Plato’s Euthyphro Summary and Conclusion Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Prologue Did Socrates Accept That Virtue Was Sufficient for Happiness? Doing Well in the Euthydemus The Luck Factor Achieving Virtue The Stoic Socrates Human Vulnerability Moral Harm Summary and Conclusion 6 The Necessity of Virtue for Happiness 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Introduction: Are We All Better Off Dead? Death Is One of Two Things The Euthydemus Again Improvable Knowledge and Virtue Again Virtue and Happiness in Other Dialogues Just How Skillful Is Skillful Enough? Degrees of Demandingness in Skills The Teachability of Skills Revisiting the Demandingness of Skills 49 50 57 60 63 68 68 69 71 75 76 78 79 82 86 86 89 91 93 95 102 104 105 107 107 108 in 113 ո5 117 119 122 128 129 129 130 131 135 138 140 141 142 145
Contents 6-ю 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 Contextualizing the Demandingness of Skills Returning to Virtue Becoming and Being Positively Happy Ashes to Ashes ... Summary and Conclusion Afterword: Review and Assessment A.i A.2 A.3 A.4 A. 5 Charity in Interpretation Socrates’ Motivational Intellectualism The Craft Model Socrates on the Connections Between Virtue and Happiness The Improvability of Knowledge, Virtue,and Happiness References Index ofPassages General Index vii 148 150 153 154 157 159 159 160 161 162 164 166 174 179
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Contents Preface P.i P.2 P-3 P.4 1 Socrates as Exemplar 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 1 3 5 6 7 13 16 18 19 21 Introduction Is Socrates Not the First? Only Socrates Being an Artisan and Performing the Functions of a Craft How Socrates Performs the Craft of Politics Summary and Conclusion Socratic Motivational Intellectualism 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.7 3.8 ix xii xv xvii 1 An Inconsistency in Plato’s Portrait? Plato’s Socratic Hagiography: A (Very) Brief Review of the Evidence Socratic Virtue Intellectualism The Socratic Disclaimer of Knowledge A Way Out: It Is Not “All or Nothing” Craft and Definitional Knowledge The Relative Importance of Different Skills Two Alternatives Considered Summary and Conclusion Socrates as Apprentice at Virtue 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3 page ix The Origins ofThis Project Intended Readership and Structure of the Book Methodological Issues Texts, Translations, Acknowledgments Introduction Socratic Pragmatism Eudaimonism Egoism? Making Motivational Intellectualism Explicit The Denial of Akrasia Nonrational Desires Emotions and Appetites v 21 22 23 29 31 34 36 36 37 38 40 42 43 44 47
vi Contents 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Persuasion Punishment The Gadfly’s Sting The Pain of Shame The Damage That Is Done by Wrongdoing 4 Socratic Ignorance 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.XI 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 5 Introduction Types of Ignorance How to Tell That Someone Is Ignorant The Sources of Ignorance The Socratic Elenchos Elenchos and the Rational Remediation of Ignorance Definitional Knowledge and the Improvability of Epistemic Success Elenchos and the Nonrational Sources of Ignorance Deliberation in Ignorance Rational Preference The Threat of Skepticism (and Practical Paralysis) Reining in the Problem of Ignorance An Important Text What Socrates Believes Socrates’ Reasons The Lessons of Plato’s Euthyphro Summary and Conclusion Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Prologue Did Socrates Accept That Virtue Was Sufficient for Happiness? Doing Well in the Euthydemus The Luck Factor Achieving Virtue The Stoic Socrates Human Vulnerability Moral Harm Summary and Conclusion 6 The Necessity of Virtue for Happiness 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Introduction: Are We All Better Off Dead? Death Is One of Two Things The Euthydemus Again Improvable Knowledge and Virtue Again Virtue and Happiness in Other Dialogues Just How Skillful Is Skillful Enough? Degrees of Demandingness in Skills The Teachability of Skills Revisiting the Demandingness of Skills 49 50 57 60 63 68 68 69 71 75 76 78 79 82 86 86 89 91 93 95 102 104 105 107 107 108 in 113 ո5 117 119 122 128 129 129 130 131 135 138 140 141 142 145
Contents 6-ю 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 Contextualizing the Demandingness of Skills Returning to Virtue Becoming and Being Positively Happy Ashes to Ashes . Summary and Conclusion Afterword: Review and Assessment A.i A.2 A.3 A.4 A. 5 Charity in Interpretation Socrates’ Motivational Intellectualism The Craft Model Socrates on the Connections Between Virtue and Happiness The Improvability of Knowledge, Virtue,and Happiness References Index ofPassages General Index vii 148 150 153 154 157 159 159 160 161 162 164 166 174 179 |
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