Abstract

"Virtue is knowledge" is a very important ethical proposition put forward by the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. Hegel made a fairly exhaustive evaluation and analysis of this proposition in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy. In his study of the history of philosophy, Hegel was more inclined to the method of "annotating the Six Classics to annotate myself," that is, he gave expression to his own point of view through the study of the history of philosophy or the thoughts of certain philosophers in history. Therefore his evaluation and analysis of this proposition of Socrates was actually an illustration of his own views on the relations between ethics and knowledge. If we say that whether Socrates' proposition was justified and proper has yet to be proved through further studies, then what Hegel set forth indeed embodied much real knowledge and deep insight that can give us inspiration