Knowing what’s good for you

The Philosophers' Magazine 53 (53):85-90 (2011)
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We should see a very close connection between two fields of philosophy which are nowadays kept well apart, namely ethics and epistemology. Indeed, if the good life and virtue consist in knowledge, then the study of knowledge just is the study of ethics.

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10.5840/tpm20115379

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Peter Adamson
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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