Socrates · Philosophy

Virtue Is Knowledge

Socrates’s startling doctrine that virtue is a kind of knowledge, that no one does wrong willingly, and that all wrongdoing springs ultimately from ignorance.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Socrates’s doctrine that virtue is knowledge and no one does wrong willingly. His successor Aristotle rejected this, insisting that we often know the good yet fail to do it. State Aristotle’s challenge.

Leads to Aristotle.

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