Assertion: virtue | /r/HasProperty | knowledge
Facets:
value: so again
type: MANNER
value: according to socrates
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Virtue is Knowledge
text: From this necessity of the moral virtues we see the falsity of the theory of Socrates, who held that all virtue was knowledge, as he held that all vice was ignorance.
text: Socrates argued that virtue is knowledge, which suggests that there is really only one virtue.
text: From this necessity of the moral virtues we see the falsity of the theory of Socrates, who held that all virtue was knowledge, as he held that all vice was ignorance.
text: Socrates proceeds on the hypothesis that virtue is knowledge, and it is quickly agreed that, if this is true, virtue is teachable.
text: They turn to the question of whether virtue is indeed knowledge.
text: Socrates is hesitant, because, if virtue were knowledge, there should be teachers and learners of it, but there are none.
text: From this necessity of the moral virtues we see the falsity of the theory of Socrates, who held that all virtue was knowledge, as he held that all vice was ignorance.
text: 1) IF virtue is knowledge, then virtue can be taught
text: In some contexts, Arete is explicitly linked with human knowledge, where the expressions "virtue is knowledge" and "Arete is knowledge" are used interchangeably.
text: According to Socrates, virtue is knowledge, because: (1) all living things aim for their perceived good; and therefore (2) if anyone does not know what is good, he cannot do what is good -- because he will always aim for a mistaken target; but (3) if someone knows what is good, he will do what is good, because he will aim for what is good.
text: If virtue is knowledge, then virtue can be taught.
text: He says that because things can be done or used wisely or foolishly, and that only doing or using them wisely is virtuous, then it seems that virtue is knowledge (Meno 87c-89a).
text: Virtue is knowledge -- what does it mean?
text: And so again Virtue is knowledge, because if someone does not know what the good is, he cannot do what is good, because he will aim for what he perceives to be the good (ibid.
text: Socrates' thesis "Virtue is knowledge" has the consequence that the one who knows what is good, does what is good, or, the good man is the wise man, in other words.
text: Contrast that with "Virtue is knowledge": No one knowingly does what is evil (i.e. the opposite of good), but does evil only if he mistakenly believes that the evil is really the good.
text: That "Wisdom is knowledge", and "Virtue is wisdom", and therefore that "Virtue is knowledge"
text: Virtue is knowledge' and 'Knowledge is virtue'?
text: The query says "view", and that was what I wrote at one time (I don't know why), that Virtue is knowledge is only a way of looking at things, neither provable (verifiable) nor refutable (falsifiable), not a proposition that asserts a fact.
text: Is 'Virtue is knowledge' a statement-of-fact or a point-of-view?
text: Virtue is knowledge.
text: That is the puzzle if virtue is indeed knowledge.
text: Socrates proceeds on the hypothesis that virtue is knowledge, and it is quickly agreed that, if this is true, virtue is teachable.
text: They turn to the question of whether virtue is indeed knowledge.
text: Socrates is hesitant, because, if virtue were knowledge, there should be teachers and learners of it, but there are none.
text: Virtue is knowledge: if you know what is right, you will do what is right.