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Ok, I see, but there’s a problem which is considering the first principle, which is here that when I am not thinking I know that I can think, as « kno...

But what if you did not have fear when going in that unfamiliar direction? Would it be courageous anyway? I still don’t understand what « authenticity...

My understanding of it is that it is our means for gaining knowledge. Hopefully it will be as useful as you think it is then. Perhaps instead of searc...

From reading those articles, I think that the general methodology of knowledge that comes out of them is: Knowledge is gained through the verification...

Interesting analogy. Problem being how do we know whether a plank is rotten if we aren’t sure of what standing on a plank that’s not rotten feels like...

One cannot reject that on the grounds of logic. But if we’re searching for the ground on which knowledge stands, it’s at the very least questionable t...

Why would wisdom express misanthropic ideas ?

And where does courage fit into this according to you ? What does it mean for a quality of virtue to be authentic? What does it mean for wisdom to “re...

What are those other capacities then, and how do they relate to wisdom ?

I have some propositions for standards we could use. The first one is: “If a proposition is such that if it can be verified, then it must be true, it ...

Nice! When you say that virtue is the natural outcome of wisdom, do you mean that wisdom always leads to virtue, or that wisdom encourages the flouris...

So, wisdom means being wise, which means having realized one’s full potential?

Ok I see that my argument wasn’t very sound. But I think that knowledge, given that it implies at least in some way belief, may be classified as behav...

So "wisdom" is the state of being a wise person, which is having achieved human excellence ?

Going over what you have said, it seems to me that wisdom for you is the state of having achieved human excellence, so is my understanding here correc...

Ok I see. So, do you consider “wisdom” to be a synonym of “virtue” or do you think they relate to each other in a different way ?

:up: Maybe using logic at all for this issue is misguided, because to use logic would imply assuming its validity as a source of knowledge, so we’d al...

Ok I see. So, first of all, what do you mean exactly by balance in one’s soul ? I think the lines are kind of blurry here. Knowledge, no matter the de...

So if I understand your view of virtue and wisdom well, virtue is human excellence, which consists in balance in one’s soul and a person who has achie...

I think there are nuances in how responsible one is for the consequences, and that affects the morality of the action, the more responsible we are, th...

I think it depends on who uses the words. Someone who thinks that virtue is equal to good would mean the same thing by both words, while someone else ...

What then are those other good things other than virtue ? And what is it that makes something good ? I Ok I see. Yes, we shouldn’t be indifferent to t...

Ok I see. If virtue = goodness, then wouldn’t that mean that a good act is also a virtuous act ? Or do you think that virtue is not equal to goodness ...

If those are the terms on which you want to start from, so be it. But the point of moral deliberation is to attain a state of knowledge from which we ...

Yes, and it seems to me it is because we’re trapped in it. What do you mean exactly by “it makes no sense” ? I think it does leave room though. I thin...

:up: Unfortunately, philosophy must be done within the limits of our concepts and language, so we’re going to have to be content with this, at least f...

:up: It seems to me that years of experience are neither necessary nor even sufficient for wisdom. They can definitely help foster it, but years of ex...

Given that the main preoccupation of ethics at that time was the telos of human beings, it seems to me that goodness would be what gets one closer to ...

Interesting point. But a little vague it seems to me. If we take the traditional definition of knowledge as justified true belief (at least just for t...

Ok I see.

:up: I imagine from there we can generalize and conclude that there is more to virtuous action than knowledge. So it seems virtue is not equal to know...

Ok, I understand now.

Sorry for that! Do you mind saying what your reply was ?

Ok I agree. This seems to me like quite the claim to make. Why do you think so ? :up: Resemblance in what regard ? What properties are you talking abo...

The right thing to do is indeed to get rid of the phobia, but is knowing that you must get rid of it sufficient to get rid of it, or are there other f...

Sorry for not answering to you all earlier. I’ll do my best to answer faster from now on.

Good point. But that does not rule out the possibility that the sense of virtue may actually be something that originated completely from within the v...

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Unfortunately for us, doing the right thing always involves at least some amount of guessing. So perhaps Plato desires something that we cannot ever c...

I think we can all agree that they are at least.

I think that the idea of adaptive habits may actually be an an abstraction of the virtues as opposed to something that something the virtues may be re...

Then someone who knows that fighting 10 men attacking a bank alone is reckless, that doing nothing is cowardly, and that calling the police is the rig...

:up: I think that "courage" may actually refer to the golden mean between rashness and cowardice as opposed to referring to what is measured by "rashn...

:up: However, it seems to me that the issue is not yet solved. A link between virtue and wisdom has definitely been established, but the strength of t...

Ok I see. This point seems to come back often. Is there any way for someone to accept it other than viewing it as "a truth of reason" ?

Ok I agree with with this. But still, I'm not sure of what is meant exactly by "perceiving". I'm also not sure of how this is related to the thesis th...

It seems that the argument you are presenting comes back quite often to the notion of a sensation resembling something. What does it mean exactly to s...

Let's imagine for some time that there is a world with observers in it. That world is made up of a ridiculously high amount of extremely small particl...

Fair enough. But perhaps then that the universal is not really some objective world. Perhaps it is the shared patterns in human experience then.

To test that, one would have to take a completely objective point of view, free of subjectivity, and from which one could observe the world and its su...