PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Empiricism, A Posteriori, Eristic
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Lecture 11: ( continuation of week 5 slides, and lecture 10 ) Which itself is a virtue (but not a virtue) If they seem to, it"s because the mistake them for good things. P1: bad things cause harm and hurt you. C1: so if you know x is bad you won"t want x. C2: so no one knowingly desires bad things. I. e virtue ---> knowledge (first, partial proof of the thesis that virtue is knowledge) Problems with the argument: encountered already in plato"s republic. For me might be bad : what"s good , but we also know that plato views relativity (like change) as a mark of. For you: even if knowledge is necessary (96e, where they failed to perceive, true opinion lower levels of reality will work too) it"s not sufficient, you also have to want something (but that"s alway the good) Meno"s (eristic) paradox (you can"t learn anything new) Meno is stunned: a sign of progress!
