Socratic Ignorance and Skepticism

Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 7 (1996)
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Abstract

Argues that the Socratic profession of wisdom is not an expression of skepticism. Plato's Socrates claims to know things and says that others also know things. The profession of ignorance is a profession about wisdom, not about any other type of knowledge.

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Nicholas D. Smith
Lewis & Clark College

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