Flowchart: Alternate Process: 3. Know thyself (I). Second approach to the question about the good life: What am I? a. How should I live? (cont.) Choice between different kinds of life. Political life vs. philosophical life. Ambition and youth: the desire to succeed. Some puzzles about desiring without knowing. The dependency thesis: the Socratic view of the relation between knowing and getting what you want. b. The Delphic command: from the investigation of the limits of the human condition to the search for self-knowledge. Practical and theoretical aspects of the question about the self. Why do Socrates' interlocutors get angry? Do the Socratic encounters really help his interlocutors to improve their condition? Kinds of ignorance. c. Socratic search for self-knowledge. Why is self-knowledge important for living well? The importance of caring about the right things. What are the things that belong most properly to myself? The self as the soul: introduction to the body-soul dualism. Self-knowledge and friendship: What can Socrates do for Alcibiades? Why does Socrates say that he needs Alcibiades as much as Alcibiades needs him? Reading: Apology, Alcibiades. Important terms: hybris, oikeion, timę, philotimia, sophrosynę, body-soul dualism, psychę, philia, … back to PHL202 Schedule

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