Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness
Explains how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy
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| contents | Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- P.1 The Origins of This Project -- P.2 Intended Readership and Structure of the Book -- P.3 Methodological Issues -- P.4 Texts, Translations, Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Socrates as Exemplar -- 1.1 An Inconsistency in Plato's Portrait? -- 1.2 Plato's Socratic Hagiography: A (Very) Brief Review of the Evidence -- 1.3 Socratic Virtue Intellectualism -- 1.4 The Socratic Disclaimer of Knowledge -- 1.5 A Way Out: It Is Not "All or Nothing" -- 1.6 Craft and Definitional Knowledge -- 1.7 The Relative Importance of Different Skills -- 1.8 Two Alternatives Considered -- 1.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Socrates as Apprentice at Virtue -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Is Socrates Not the First? -- 2.3 Only Socrates -- 2.4 Being an Artisan and Performing the Functions of a Craft -- 2.5 How Socrates Performs the Craft of Politics -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Socratic Motivational Intellectualism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Socratic Pragmatism -- 3.3 Eudaimonism -- 3.4 Egoism? -- 3.5 Making Motivational Intellectualism Explicit -- 3.6 The Denial of Akrasia -- 3.7 Nonrational Desires -- 3.8 Emotions and Appetites -- 3.9 Persuasion -- 3.10 Punishment -- 3.11 The Gadfly's Sting -- 3.12 The Pain of Shame -- 3.13 The Damage That Is Done by Wrongdoing -- Chapter 4 Socratic Ignorance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Types of Ignorance -- 4.3 How to Tell That Someone Is Ignorant -- 4.4 The Sources of Ignorance -- 4.5 The Socratic Elenchos -- 4.6 Elenchos and the Rational Remediation of Ignorance -- 4.7 Definitional Knowledge and the Improvability of Epistemic Success -- 4.8 Elenchos and the Nonrational Sources of Ignorance -- 4.9 Deliberation in Ignorance -- 4.10 Rational Preference -- 4.11 The Threat of Skepticism (and Practical Paralysis) 4.12 Reining in the Problem of Ignorance -- 4.13 An Important Text -- 4.14 What Socrates Believes -- 4.15 Socrates' Reasons -- 4.16 The Lesson of Plato's Euthyphro -- 4.17 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.1 Prologue -- 5.2 Did Socrates Accept That Virtue Was Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.3 Doing Well in the Euthydemus -- 5.4 The Luck Factor -- 5.5 Achieving Virtue -- 5.6 The Stoic Socrates -- 5.7 Human Vulnerability -- 5.8 Moral Harm -- 5.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Necessity of Virtue for Happiness -- 6.1 Introduction: Are We All Better Off Dead? -- 6.2 Death Is One of Two Things -- 6.3 The Euthydemus Again -- 6.4 Improvable Knowledge and Virtue Again -- 6.5 Virtue and Happiness in Other Dialogues -- 6.6 Just How Skillful Is Skillful Enough? -- 6.7 Degrees of Demandingness in Skills -- 6.8 The Teachability of Skills -- 6.9 Revisiting the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.10 Contextualizing the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.11 Returning to Virtue -- 6.12 Becoming and Being Positively Happy -- 6.13 Ashes to Ashes ... -- 6.14 Summary and Conclusion -- Afterword: Review and Assessment -- A.1 Charity in Interpretation -- A.2 Socrates' Motivational Intellectualism -- A.3 The Craft Model -- A.4 Socrates on the Connections Between Virtue and Happiness -- A.5 The Improvability of Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness -- References -- Index of Passages -- General Index |
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| spelling | Smith, Nicholas D. Verfasser aut Socrates on Self-Improvement Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021 ©2021 1 Online-Ressource (204 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- P.1 The Origins of This Project -- P.2 Intended Readership and Structure of the Book -- P.3 Methodological Issues -- P.4 Texts, Translations, Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Socrates as Exemplar -- 1.1 An Inconsistency in Plato's Portrait? -- 1.2 Plato's Socratic Hagiography: A (Very) Brief Review of the Evidence -- 1.3 Socratic Virtue Intellectualism -- 1.4 The Socratic Disclaimer of Knowledge -- 1.5 A Way Out: It Is Not "All or Nothing" -- 1.6 Craft and Definitional Knowledge -- 1.7 The Relative Importance of Different Skills -- 1.8 Two Alternatives Considered -- 1.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Socrates as Apprentice at Virtue -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Is Socrates Not the First? -- 2.3 Only Socrates -- 2.4 Being an Artisan and Performing the Functions of a Craft -- 2.5 How Socrates Performs the Craft of Politics -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Socratic Motivational Intellectualism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Socratic Pragmatism -- 3.3 Eudaimonism -- 3.4 Egoism? -- 3.5 Making Motivational Intellectualism Explicit -- 3.6 The Denial of Akrasia -- 3.7 Nonrational Desires -- 3.8 Emotions and Appetites -- 3.9 Persuasion -- 3.10 Punishment -- 3.11 The Gadfly's Sting -- 3.12 The Pain of Shame -- 3.13 The Damage That Is Done by Wrongdoing -- Chapter 4 Socratic Ignorance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Types of Ignorance -- 4.3 How to Tell That Someone Is Ignorant -- 4.4 The Sources of Ignorance -- 4.5 The Socratic Elenchos -- 4.6 Elenchos and the Rational Remediation of Ignorance -- 4.7 Definitional Knowledge and the Improvability of Epistemic Success -- 4.8 Elenchos and the Nonrational Sources of Ignorance -- 4.9 Deliberation in Ignorance -- 4.10 Rational Preference -- 4.11 The Threat of Skepticism (and Practical Paralysis) 4.12 Reining in the Problem of Ignorance -- 4.13 An Important Text -- 4.14 What Socrates Believes -- 4.15 Socrates' Reasons -- 4.16 The Lesson of Plato's Euthyphro -- 4.17 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.1 Prologue -- 5.2 Did Socrates Accept That Virtue Was Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.3 Doing Well in the Euthydemus -- 5.4 The Luck Factor -- 5.5 Achieving Virtue -- 5.6 The Stoic Socrates -- 5.7 Human Vulnerability -- 5.8 Moral Harm -- 5.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Necessity of Virtue for Happiness -- 6.1 Introduction: Are We All Better Off Dead? -- 6.2 Death Is One of Two Things -- 6.3 The Euthydemus Again -- 6.4 Improvable Knowledge and Virtue Again -- 6.5 Virtue and Happiness in Other Dialogues -- 6.6 Just How Skillful Is Skillful Enough? -- 6.7 Degrees of Demandingness in Skills -- 6.8 The Teachability of Skills -- 6.9 Revisiting the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.10 Contextualizing the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.11 Returning to Virtue -- 6.12 Becoming and Being Positively Happy -- 6.13 Ashes to Ashes ... -- 6.14 Summary and Conclusion -- Afterword: Review and Assessment -- A.1 Charity in Interpretation -- A.2 Socrates' Motivational Intellectualism -- A.3 The Craft Model -- A.4 Socrates on the Connections Between Virtue and Happiness -- A.5 The Improvability of Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness -- References -- Index of Passages -- General Index Explains how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy Socrates v469-v399 (DE-588)118615270 gnd rswk-swf Socrates Knowledge, Theory of Self-actualization (Psychology) Erkenntnisfortschritt (DE-588)4312596-7 gnd rswk-swf Selbstaufmerksamkeit (DE-588)4180814-9 gnd rswk-swf Electronic books Socrates v469-v399 (DE-588)118615270 p Erkenntnisfortschritt (DE-588)4312596-7 s Selbstaufmerksamkeit (DE-588)4180814-9 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smith, Nicholas D. Socrates on Self-Improvement Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2021 9781316515532 |
| spellingShingle | Smith, Nicholas D. Socrates on Self-Improvement Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- P.1 The Origins of This Project -- P.2 Intended Readership and Structure of the Book -- P.3 Methodological Issues -- P.4 Texts, Translations, Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Socrates as Exemplar -- 1.1 An Inconsistency in Plato's Portrait? -- 1.2 Plato's Socratic Hagiography: A (Very) Brief Review of the Evidence -- 1.3 Socratic Virtue Intellectualism -- 1.4 The Socratic Disclaimer of Knowledge -- 1.5 A Way Out: It Is Not "All or Nothing" -- 1.6 Craft and Definitional Knowledge -- 1.7 The Relative Importance of Different Skills -- 1.8 Two Alternatives Considered -- 1.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Socrates as Apprentice at Virtue -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Is Socrates Not the First? -- 2.3 Only Socrates -- 2.4 Being an Artisan and Performing the Functions of a Craft -- 2.5 How Socrates Performs the Craft of Politics -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Socratic Motivational Intellectualism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Socratic Pragmatism -- 3.3 Eudaimonism -- 3.4 Egoism? -- 3.5 Making Motivational Intellectualism Explicit -- 3.6 The Denial of Akrasia -- 3.7 Nonrational Desires -- 3.8 Emotions and Appetites -- 3.9 Persuasion -- 3.10 Punishment -- 3.11 The Gadfly's Sting -- 3.12 The Pain of Shame -- 3.13 The Damage That Is Done by Wrongdoing -- Chapter 4 Socratic Ignorance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Types of Ignorance -- 4.3 How to Tell That Someone Is Ignorant -- 4.4 The Sources of Ignorance -- 4.5 The Socratic Elenchos -- 4.6 Elenchos and the Rational Remediation of Ignorance -- 4.7 Definitional Knowledge and the Improvability of Epistemic Success -- 4.8 Elenchos and the Nonrational Sources of Ignorance -- 4.9 Deliberation in Ignorance -- 4.10 Rational Preference -- 4.11 The Threat of Skepticism (and Practical Paralysis) 4.12 Reining in the Problem of Ignorance -- 4.13 An Important Text -- 4.14 What Socrates Believes -- 4.15 Socrates' Reasons -- 4.16 The Lesson of Plato's Euthyphro -- 4.17 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.1 Prologue -- 5.2 Did Socrates Accept That Virtue Was Sufficient for Happiness? -- 5.3 Doing Well in the Euthydemus -- 5.4 The Luck Factor -- 5.5 Achieving Virtue -- 5.6 The Stoic Socrates -- 5.7 Human Vulnerability -- 5.8 Moral Harm -- 5.9 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Necessity of Virtue for Happiness -- 6.1 Introduction: Are We All Better Off Dead? -- 6.2 Death Is One of Two Things -- 6.3 The Euthydemus Again -- 6.4 Improvable Knowledge and Virtue Again -- 6.5 Virtue and Happiness in Other Dialogues -- 6.6 Just How Skillful Is Skillful Enough? -- 6.7 Degrees of Demandingness in Skills -- 6.8 The Teachability of Skills -- 6.9 Revisiting the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.10 Contextualizing the Demandingness of Skills -- 6.11 Returning to Virtue -- 6.12 Becoming and Being Positively Happy -- 6.13 Ashes to Ashes ... -- 6.14 Summary and Conclusion -- Afterword: Review and Assessment -- A.1 Charity in Interpretation -- A.2 Socrates' Motivational Intellectualism -- A.3 The Craft Model -- A.4 Socrates on the Connections Between Virtue and Happiness -- A.5 The Improvability of Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness -- References -- Index of Passages -- General Index Socrates v469-v399 (DE-588)118615270 gnd Socrates Knowledge, Theory of Self-actualization (Psychology) Erkenntnisfortschritt (DE-588)4312596-7 gnd Selbstaufmerksamkeit (DE-588)4180814-9 gnd |
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