History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
30 snips
Feb 7, 2011 AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Meeting Carmides: Drama and Philosophy
- Plato narrates Socrates' first meeting with the handsome youth Carmides in a lively marketplace scene.
- Despite Carmides' charm, we know his future as a follower of tyranny adds dramatic irony to the philosophical dialogue.
Temperance as Self-Knowledge
- Plato links temperance with self-knowledge, exploring if knowing oneself equates to knowing knowledge itself.
- This blurs ethics into epistemology, showing how virtue may be deeply connected with knowledge.
Paradox of Knowing Knowledge
- Knowledge of knowledge poses a paradox: it's essential to verify knowledge, yet seemingly useless in practical terms.
- This puzzles us on the nature of self-knowledge and its significance in ethics and epistemology.