Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness

by Nicholas D Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009012436
• ISBN13: 9781009012430
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"