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Dalla tecnica all’etica: argomentazioni peirastiche in Lachete, Carmide, Ippia minore e Protagora

Dalla tecnica all’etica: argomentazioni peirastiche in Lachete, Carmide, Ippia minore e Protagora AbstractThe analogy between virtue and crafts is the core of Socratic ethics, whose fundamental principle is that virtue is a kind of knowledge similar to technical skills. Moral knowledge, however, is on a superior level and is different from other crafts since it concerns the ends of human action. This article aims to show that the main purpose of Laches, Charmides, Lesser Hippias and Protagoras is to bring out this distinction. More specifically, all the four dialogues follow a similar pattern, i.e. they lead to the conclusion that virtue is moral knowledge by means of preliminary argumentations which consider the opposite view, supposing that it consists in technical knowledge. Thus we are shown the difficulties arising if we fail to distinguish moral knowledge, before the dialogue reaches its positive conclusion. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Elenchos de Gruyter

Dalla tecnica all’etica: argomentazioni peirastiche in Lachete, Carmide, Ippia minore e Protagora

Elenchos , Volume 35 (2): 18 – Jun 1, 2014

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de Gruyter
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© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
ISSN
0392-7342
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2037-7177
DOI
10.1515/elen-2014-350203
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Abstract

AbstractThe analogy between virtue and crafts is the core of Socratic ethics, whose fundamental principle is that virtue is a kind of knowledge similar to technical skills. Moral knowledge, however, is on a superior level and is different from other crafts since it concerns the ends of human action. This article aims to show that the main purpose of Laches, Charmides, Lesser Hippias and Protagoras is to bring out this distinction. More specifically, all the four dialogues follow a similar pattern, i.e. they lead to the conclusion that virtue is moral knowledge by means of preliminary argumentations which consider the opposite view, supposing that it consists in technical knowledge. Thus we are shown the difficulties arising if we fail to distinguish moral knowledge, before the dialogue reaches its positive conclusion.

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Elenchosde Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2014

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