Title
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group / Bloomsbury Publishing
Abstract
Intellectualism is a view attributed to Socrates in several of Plato's Socratic dialogues that treats certain mental states, in particular virtue and vice, as states of the intellect alone, and which, as a result, denies the existence of moral weakness (akrasia; q.v.). Intellectualism is especially prominent in the Laches, Gorgias, Euthydemus, Protagoras and Meno.
Chapter of
The Continuum Companion to Plato
Editor
Gerald Press
Recommended Citation
Prior, W. J. (2012). Intellectualism. In G. Press (Ed.), The Continuum Companion to Plato (London: Continuum International Publishing Group), 184-186.
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Comments
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