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Plato on the Attribution of Conative Attitudes
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 88 (2):127-162 (2006)
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Plato’s Socrates famously claims that we want (bou9lesqai) the good, rather than what we think good (Gorgias 468bd). My paper seeks to answer some basic questions about this well-known but little-understood claim: what does the claim mean, and what is its philosophical motivation and significance? How does the claim relate to Socrates’ claim that we desire (e7piqumei=n)1 things that we think are good, which..Author's Profile
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