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Sokrates: Tugend ist Wissen

From the book Platonische Aufsätze

  • Rafael Ferber

Abstract

The article examines the Socratic principle that (1) virtue is knowledge and its corollary that (2) nobody errs voluntarily. It tries to show (I) that both principles are paradoxa, that is, from a phenomenological point of view, they seem to be false; (II) that nevertheless the Platonic Socrates accepts both principles as true; and finally (III) that these principles are analytic truths a priori which enlarge our knowledge, but can only be understood if an individual finds them in him- or herself.

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