Jenseits der Täuschungen: Selbsterkenntnis und Selbstbestimmung mit Sokrates

ISBN-10: 3899716507
ISBN-13: 9783899716504
Category: Philosophy
Pages: 465
Language: German
Published: 2011
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Author: Jörg Hardy

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English summary: This book is both a study about the Socratic-Platonic conception of a good life, and an analytical study on self-knowledge, self-determination, and moral motivation. In the first part of his book, the author provides a detailed analysis of arguments from The Apology, Protagoras, Laches, Meno, Gorgias, Charmides, Republic, and Phaedo. For Socrates, the life we ought to live is the good life (or happiness, eudaimonia); the life we want to live - once we know what it means to live - is a good life. The good life requires the knowledge of human well-being, which is to be acquired by way of questioning ourselves and examining our and others' beliefs. An agent who possesses this knowledge pursues three general, supreme goals: she wants to know the particular action, which is all-things-considered in a present situation the best means to her happiness; she wants to act on her knowledge; and she does not want to harm other people. Hardy defends a non-reductive reading of Socratic intellectualism: The knowledge about human well-being is a comprehensiveuboth theoretical, and practical, knowledge, which encompasses all the relevant mental capacities and abilities of a person. In the second part of the book, the author presents a theory of self-knowledge, self-determination, and moral motivation on the basis of his interpretation of the Socratic conception of virtue. German text. German description: Wie ware es, ein nachdenkliches und gedanklich selbst-bestimmtes Leben zu fuhren - ein Leben, das von einem moglichst genauen und moglichst tauschungsresistenten Wissen uber die eigene Person bestimmt ist? Diese Frage wird in dieser Studie im Blick auf die Platonische Philosophie sowie im Blick auf zeitgenossische, systematische Fragen erortert. Wenn wir ein gelingendes Leben fuhren wollen, sollten wir Sokrates zufolge drei allgemeine, vorrangige, modale Ziele verfolgen: das Verfugen uber Wissen bzw. gerechtfertigte Meinungen, das von Wissen bestimmte Wollen und das moralische Wollen. Um diese Ziele erreichen zu konnen, brauchen wir ein komplexes handlungsleitendes Wissen uber das gelingende Leben. Der Autor nennt es das eudamonistische Wissen. In dem ersten Hauptteil der Studie wird das eudamonistische Wissen erlautert. Interpretiert werden Argumente aus Apologie, Protagoras, Laches, Menon, Gorgias, Charmides, Politeia und Phaidon. Zwei wesentliche Elemente eines gelingenden Lebens sind Selbsterkenntnis und gedankliche Selbstbestimmung. In dem zweiten Hauptteil der Studie wird der Versuch einer systematischen Interpretation der sokratischen Konzeption unternommen: Wie haben wir uns den menschlichen Geist vorzustellen, um den Zusammenhang zwischen Selbst-erkenntnis und gedanklicher Selbstbestimmung zu verstehen? Welchen Beitrag leisten Selbsterkenntnis und Selbstbestimmung zur moralischen Einstellung?

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