Wisdom Ethics The Relationship Between Knowledge and Virtue in Selected Platonic Dialogues

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Moore, John

Keywords

Classics, Plato, Virtue, Ethics, Knowledge, Meno, Theaetetus, Republic

Area of Concentration

Classics

Abstract

The following pages explore the treatment of knowledge and virtue in Plato's Meno, Theaetetus, and Republic. Closely reading the primary texts reveals basic assumptions about the nature of what knowing is and how knowledge is acquired. The realm of the Forms plays a great part in understanding human knowledge and reasoning processes. The dialogues also posit virtue as necessarily in the realm of the Forms. Thus, the study concludes that Plato's basic epistemological premises lead to an understanding of virtue as contingent upon and inseparable from reasoning. The author has used the Greek text found in the Loeb Classical Library editions of each dialogue for primary material. All translations are the author's own.

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