PHIL 003 Lecture 88: Philosophy Notes
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Making people care about what really matters. Socrates" ignorance and his claims to knowledge claims he doesn"t know anything about either physics or human virtue its shameful to do wrong. Wrong to disobey the superior expert vs. non-expert knowledge. Being teachable is a feature or property of something(e. g. , math is teachable, but digestion is not). Whether or not something has o can have a certain property depends on the kind of thing it is. Mathematics: is a system of axioms, principles, that we can intentionally put to use that we have control over how we use it. Meno attempts second definition: virtue is the ability to rule over people (73d) Meno"s paradox you wither know or you do not know what you are looking for. if you know what you"re looking for, inquiry is unnecessary. Meno"s paradox: you either know or you do not know what you are looking for.