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- The most famous philosophical argument involving self-knowledge, Descartes’ cogito argument (Descartes 1641/1895), does not concern these general relations. Instead, it concerns the certainty of a particular instance of belief.
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Feb 7, 2003 · What is relevant to the most famous philosophical argument involving self-knowledge is not these general relations but, rather, the certainty of a particular instance of belief.
Feb 7, 2003 · In philosophy, ‘self-knowledge’ commonly refers to knowledge of one's particular mental states, including one's beliefs, desires, and sensations. It is also sometimes used to refer to knowledge about a persisting self -- its ontological nature, identity conditions, or character traits.
Apr 12, 2019 · The Phaedrus, ostensibly concerned with rhetoric, erôs, and the career of the soul in philosophy, twice takes up self-knowledge in a serious way: in Socrates’ introductory remarks about myth-rectification, and in his later “Palinode” speech.
Nov 30, 2018 · In this chapter, the author illuminates the way self-knowledge and theoretical knowledge are intimately related through a close reading of Plato’s most famous image. Instead of concentrating solely on the shadow-like objects of the prisoner’s perception and cognition, the author turns our attention to the psychic changes undergone by the ...
Aug 11, 2013 · Quest thus presented a broadly conceived portrait of science as part of the larger Western dilemma of integrating self and other, objectivity and subjectivity, individual belief and communal knowledge, with each dipole understood as balanced within the supporting cultural context.
Mar 12, 2020 · This chapter argues that Aristotelian virtue of character involves knowledge of one’s own abilities and qualities, forms of self-knowledge that are implicit in Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean and in his account of practical reasoning.
