PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Socratic Method, Folk Psychology
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If a person knows f, then, for socrates, he or she must be capable of giving an account of f. if the person fails to be able to give an account of f, she does not know f. Each step of the argument is made transparent. The interlocutor"s answers signal on each step whether she or he follows (and accepts) the argumentation. Paradox besides or against what seems to be the case. Protagoras" thesis: courage is functionally discrete from other virtues. Step 1: reducing good to pleasant and bad to painful . Protagoras" objection: yes so long as he lived having taken pleasure in honorable things. Step 2: declaring knowledge sufficient for acting according to knowledge. The folk description of incontinence: most people are unwilling to do what is best, even though they know what it is and are able to do it, and when i asked .
