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In philosophy, “self-knowledge” standardly refers to knowledge of one’s own mental states—that is, of what one is feeling or thinking, or what one believes or desires. At least since Descartes, most philosophers have believed that self-knowledge differs markedly from our knowledge of the external world (where this includes our knowledge ...
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 ...
This chapter articulates the productive link between self-knowledge and ignorance. The author argues that Socrates advocates knowledge of one’s ignorance for two principal reasons. First, it is an epistemic virtue that leads to progress in inquiry.
- Eric Sanday
- 2018
One contemporary theory of practical reasoning, offered by Velleman (1989), casts knowledge of the self in a particularly important role. Velleman notes that we strongly desire to understand ourselves and, in particular, to understand our reasons for acting.
This chapter defends two hypotheses about the extent to which we find a conception akin to ‘self-knowledge’ in Plato: (i) that the kind of second-order cognitive condition of interest to Plato would not be a post-Cartesian kind of privileged first-person access or authority, but rather a second-order assessment of the extent to which the ...
This chapter explains the differences in content between two kinds of self-knowledge in Plato and describes the two kinds of inquiry directed at each kind of self-knowledge.
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find that Plato presents Socratic self-knowledge as falling radically short of the knowledge which is virtue, and the Socratic method of inquiry as being powerless to bridge the gap.
