PHIL 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socratic Method, A Posteriori
24 Jan 2018
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Virtue is the power to acquire good things. Virtue is the power to acquire good things justly or virtuously. He claims that we can"t search for what we don"t already know. Thought: )f you don"t know what something is you can"t search for it. )f you should meet with it, how will you know what this is the thing that you did not know? (cid:499) Demonstration with the slave boy (82b 85b) Then, slave says, (cid:498)by zeus, socrates, ) do not know. (cid:499) Socrate"s account (cid:523)(cid:890)(cid:883)d-e and 85c-86c): the theory of recollection. Socrate"s stirred up buried memories the slave boy"s soul had acquired in a (cid:498)prior(cid:499) (cid:523)before(cid:524) or (cid:498)posterior(cid:499) to (cid:523)after(cid:524) experience. (cid:498)teach(cid:499) means (cid:498)tell the student the answer(cid:499) (cid:498)learn(cid:499) means (cid:498)(ear the answer from the teacher(cid:499) A posteriori knowledge: empirical knowledge, based on experience. A priori knowledge: conceptual knowledge, based on thought. Now the slave boy knows, it is possible to successfully search for knowledge.
