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Author |
: Lorraine Smith Pangle |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2014-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226136684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022613668X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtue Is Knowledge by : Lorraine Smith Pangle
The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.
Author |
: Lorraine Smith Pangle |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 022613654X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226136547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtue Is Knowledge by : Lorraine Smith Pangle
The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.
Author |
: John Greco |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2010-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521193917 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521193915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Achieving Knowledge by : John Greco
Argues that knowledge is a kind of achievement, exploring questions of what it is and what kind of value it has.
Author |
: Robert C. Roberts |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2007-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199283675 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199283672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intellectual Virtues by : Robert C. Roberts
Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before.Standing on the shoulders of recent epistemologists - including William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Ernest Sosa, and Linda Zagzebski - Roberts and Wood pursue epistemological questions by looking closely and deeply at particular traits of intellectual character such as love of knowledge, intellectual autonomy, intellectual generosity, and intellectual humility. Central to their vision is an account of intellectual goods that includes not just knowledge as properly grounded belief, butunderstanding and personal acquaintance, acquired and shared through the many social practices of actual intellectual life.This approach to intellectual virtue infuses the discipline of epistemology with new life, and makes it interesting to people outside the circle of professional epistemologists. It is epistemology for the whole intellectual community, as Roberts and Wood carefully sketch the ways in which virtues that would have been categorized earlier as moral make for agents who can better acquire, refine, and communicate important kinds of knowledge.
Author |
: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1996-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521578264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521578264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtues of the Mind by : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.
Author |
: Michael Raymond DePaul |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199219124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199219125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intellectual Virtue by : Michael Raymond DePaul
"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.
Author |
: William J. Prior |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2016-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315522043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315522047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtue and Knowledge by : William J. Prior
Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.
Author |
: David O. Brink |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2018-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192549372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192549375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge by : David O. Brink
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and assessing their individual and joint impact, together with a complete bibliography of their writings.
Author |
: Sean McAleer |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800640566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800640560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction by : Sean McAleer
It is an excellent book – highly intelligent, interesting and original. Expressing high philosophy in a readable form without trivialising it is a very difficult task and McAleer manages the task admirably. Plato is, yet again, intensely topical in the chaotic and confused world in which we are now living. Philip Allott, Professor Emeritus of International Public Law at Cambridge University This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and appreciation of the complexity and literary artistry of Plato’s Republic. McAleer not only unpacks the key overarching questions of the text – What is justice? And Is a just life happier than an unjust life? – but also highlights some fascinating, overlooked passages which contribute to our understanding of Plato’s philosophical thought. Plato’s 'Republic': An Introduction offers a rigorous and thought-provoking analysis of the text, helping readers navigate one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory. With its approachable tone and clear presentation, it constitutes a welcome contribution to the field, and will be an indispensable resource for philosophy students and teachers, as well as general readers new to, or returning to, the text.
Author |
: Maryanne Cline Horowitz |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691044635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691044637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge by : Maryanne Cline Horowitz
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."