Extravagance and mediocrity of virtue: Their divergence and the possibility of demagoguery

Autor:	Joseph Keith Woodard
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Virtue Sociology and Political Science Divergence (linguistics) Mediocrity principle Communication media_common.quotation_subject Doctrine Irony Epistemology SOCRATES Law Socratic method Intellect Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Political Communication. 9:123-141
ISSN:	1091-7675 1058-4609
Popis:	In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle refers to Socrates five times: four references are to the contentious Socratic doctrine that “virtue is knowledge” the fifth is in the discussion of irony, “such as that of which Socrates was accused.” These issues are not conjoined accidentally. “Manifest appearances” attest that we can do worse than we know or know better than we do. Yet, the “problem of incontinence'’ is only half of the problem of the divergence of character and intellect, the mediocre and the extravagant in virtue. The other half of the problem is the capacity of some to do or act better than they know, vice's ability to imitate virtue, the disloyal talent's employment of demagoguery, the clever vice of irony.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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