PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Empirical Evidence, Eristic
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Eristic paradox: we can"t nd anything out/nothing more than we already know. 2nd premise: no one wants to be hurt. Virtue is knowledge(socrates probably believed this, plato may not have) Doesn"t make sense to deem anything good or bad , a good thief is not necessarily a good person , ambiguous sense of what is bad/good and who it is bad/ good for. Knowledge is at least necessary for doing good but not suf cient. Only when you realize that you don"t know are you likely to nd out. Meno: all inquiry is either impossible(if you don"t already know) or pointless(if you do already know) To learn, you must know what is essential to the concept in order to recognize what that concept is. Socrates" response: i already know everything, the soul knows everything and. There is a feeling of recognition; the feeling of recognition is not triggered by the real thing.
