PHIL1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sophist, Socratic Method, Anytus
1 Sep 2016
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Plato/socates: opinions aren"t as good as actual knowledge or having the wisdom to recognize truth from fallacy, socratic method: trying to help you bring forth what is already in you (recollection?) b. i. Questions designed to lead the subject of the inquiries to a more truthful" outlook or discover the truth of reality. Goodness (the knowledge) is a learned thing children: anytus- warns socrates to be more careful in his words when speaking about people. 14)in a limited sense virtue is similar to knowledge but it is not identical to it: similar in that it is a good thing to have, it is dissimilar in that you cant learn it. 16)daedalus" statues: knowledge is fixed in place, doesn"t change, opinion is not fixed, can change. 17)virtue is a gift from the gods: cant tell who can be virtuous and who cannot.
