Combining Texts

Ideas for 'works', 'Truth and Method' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

2 ideas

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7503	Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Plato, by Foucault]
	Full Idea: Plato never speaks of the examination of conscience - never!
	From: report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Michel Foucault - On the Genealogy of Ethics p.276
	A reaction: Plato does imply some sort of self-evident direct knowledge about that nature of a healthy soul. Presumably the full-blown concept of conscience is something given from outside, from God. In 'Euthyphro', Plato asserts the primacy of morality (Idea 337).

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

2173	As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B on Plato]
	Full Idea: Once gods and fate and social expectation were no longer there, Plato felt it necessary to discover ethics inside human nature, not just as ethical knowledge (Socrates' view), but in the structure of the soul.
	From: comment on Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Bernard Williams - Shame and Necessity II - p.43
	A reaction: anti Charles Taylor