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Aristotle's Sublation of Socrates' "Virtue is Knowledge"

Wei Cui

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Socrates Initiated the discussions about the relation between virtue and knowledge.Plato thought that virtue is knowledge.Aristotle Sublated it from two aspects:from the view of virtue classification,Aristotle,though following Socrates' rationalism,claimed that even desires have the part of virtue,or morality;in terms of the transition from knowledge to behavior,he pointed out that with or without knowledge is not necessarily the source of good and evil.Virtue and evil come from people's will.

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Socrates Initiated the discussions about the relation between virtue and knowledge.Plato thought that virtue is knowledge.Aristotle Sublated it from two aspects:from the view of virtue classification,Aristotle,though following Socrates' rationalism,claimed that even desires have the part of virtue,or morality;in terms of the transition from knowledge to behavior,he pointed out that with or without knowledge is not necessarily the source of good and evil.Virtue and evil come from people's will.

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Socrates Initiated the discussions about the relation between virtue and knowledge.Plato thought that virtue is knowledge.Aristotle Sublated it from two aspects:from the view of virtue classification,Aristotle,though following Socrates' rationalism,claimed that even desires have the part of virtue,or morality;in terms of the transition from knowledge to behavior,he pointed out that with or without knowledge is not necessarily the source of good and evil.Virtue and evil come from people's will.

Key concepts: SOCRATES, Virtue, Philosophy, Epistemic virtue, Epistemology, Morality, Relation (database), Computer science

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