
HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
00:00
Socrates - Is Knowledge a Necessary Condition?
Socrates says that if you know something is good or right, you will inevitably do it. He argues against the idea of hedonism in which what is good is nothing other than pleasure. Socrates' view on knowledge and virtue has been criticised as being 'intellectualized'
Transcript
Play full episode