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Lecture | Doxa and Episteme in Aristotle: Some Implications for Ethical Thought

Thursday, November 2, 2023, 6:00 pm

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According to Aristotle, one part of our soul knows about necessary truths and can attain demonstrative knowledge of them (episteme), and another part knows about contingent truths and can attain an empirically informed but non-demonstrative doxastic grasp of them (phronesis, in the case of ethical truths). Yet according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics I.33, it is impossible to have episteme (understanding) and doxa (opinion) of the same thing at the same time. So what about propositions which are necessary truths belonging to a science and yet are also ethically relevant (e.g. that humans are social animals)? Could a virtuous person not have understanding of them? And in general, surely someone’s scientific knowledge is available to them to be used in their everyday deliberations? This talk sketches some Aristotelian answers.

Presented by Benjamin Morison, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

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