- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index
Difficulties for Socrates
Difficulties for Socrates
- Chapter:
- (p.65) 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- Source:
- Plato's Ethics
- Author(s):
Terence Irwin (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The core of the fifth chapter is the study of the problems that appear to be involved in Socrates’ prospective. After a consideration of the difficulties that seem to emerge from Socrates’ instrumentalist approach to happiness, attention is devoted to the role played by the craft analogy. According to this analogy, virtue is similar to a craft since a knowledge of the means is necessary for a separate end. This doctrine is illustrated making reference to Aristotle because, although used by Socrates, the craft analogy is never defined in the dialogues.
Keywords: Aristotle, Craft analogy, Ends, Plato, Good, Happiness, Instrumentalism, Socrates, Virtue
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index