The Personal Benefits of Moral Action in Plato's Republic and Meno

• In Event: 52.084 - Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 52.084-6 - Knowledge and Knowing in Education

Abstract

The usual approach to knowledge, whether in Plato's writing or in modern times, derives from the tripartite model of knowledge as justified true belief (KJTB). This model of knowledge is characterized in its neutrality regarding morality and its disconnectedness from actions. This split also exists in schools. It manifests in the division between what is conceived to be learning towards knowledge on the one hand, and other activities that are considered to promote morality on the other. Using a method of philosophical analysis, my purpose in the paper is to draw a moral Platonic perspective of knowledge (MK) that would not enable the attribution of knowledge to a person who acts in contradiction to what that person is considered to know.

Author

• Arik Arye Segev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Kaye Academic College of Education