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Paula Gottlieb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy - Aristotle on Self-Knowledge
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, 2020Co-Authors: Paula GottliebAbstract:This chapter argues that Aristotelian virtue of character involves knowledge of one’s own abilities and qualities, forms of Self-Knowledge that are implicit in Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean and in his account of practical reasoning. Support is found in the description of truthful people in EN IV 7, who, in contrast to boasters, give true, unexaggerated reports of their own qualities. It is also found in Aristotle’s discussion of the magnanimous person, who has knowledge of their own worth. The good person, then, has both kinds of knowledge, while the bad person may have knowledge about his non-ethical abilities, but not about his character. It is unclear whether the akratic, the person who knows the better course but voluntarily takes the worse, lacks Self-Knowledge or is self-deceived. Self-Knowledge about one’s own character also appears in some of Aristotle’s discussion of friendship.
Karen Margrethe Nielsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy - Aristotle on Knowing One’s Own Character: Why Self-Knowledge Matters for Virtue
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, 2020Co-Authors: Karen Margrethe NielsenAbstract:The chapter addresses the question of the relationship between Self-Knowledge and virtue. It extracts an account of Self-Knowledge from Aristotle’s remarks about magnanimity and truthfulness in the Nicomachean Ethics, and explains how magnanimity in the form of Self-Knowledge acts as an ‘adornment of virtue’ by reinforcing our inclination to choose virtuous acts for their own sakes. Self-Knowledge, it turns out, is confined to the virtuous: only the virtuous person knows her own decision for action, while the akratic becomes temporarily ignorant of her decision, in failing to attend to it and its affirming function. The vicious person, meanwhile, does not perceive or know the true quality of her actions or motives, being in error about their value. This chapter defends an account of Aristotelian Self-Knowledge as necessarily encompassing practical nous rather than simply theoretical nous.
M. Laker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards knowledge management in autonomic systems
Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. ISCC 2003, 2003Co-Authors: T. Cofino, Y. Doganata, Y. Drissi, L. Kozakov, M. LakerAbstract:The classical definition of knowledge management promises to get the right knowledge to the right people at the right time so they can make the best decision [G. Petrash, 1996]. Autonomic systems, on the other hand, are expected to find and apply the right knowledge for self-managing purposes without human intervention. This article discusses the components to be built around a system to enable self-healing and managing capabilities. These are defined and described in this article as Self-Knowledge, self-monitoring, self-learning, problem detection, diagnosis, and search and solution components. Interaction of these system components to make knowledge available for self-healing purposes is also discussed.
Fiona Leigh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy - Kinds of Self-Knowledge in Ancient Thought
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, 2020Co-Authors: Fiona LeighAbstract:This chapter explores the topic of Self-Knowledge in ancient thought, asking in particular what the ancient concept (or concepts) of knowing oneself amounts to. The chapter begins by contrasting the issues which occupy ancient and contemporary discussions of Self-Knowledge, and the obvious points of continuity and discontinuity between the two. The author isolates two forms of Self-Knowledge: cognitive Self-Knowledge or knowledge of one’s own mental states, and dispositional Self-Knowledge or knowledge of one’s moral or intellectual dispositions, and traces the treatment of these forms of Self-Knowledge in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophers, and Plotinus. In the course of discussing the texts of each thinker or school, and the relevant scholarship, this chapter also canvasses the ways in which the chapters in the rest of this volume seek to engage with some of the problems or issues that have emerged.
T. Cofino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards knowledge management in autonomic systems
Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. ISCC 2003, 2003Co-Authors: T. Cofino, Y. Doganata, Y. Drissi, L. Kozakov, M. LakerAbstract:The classical definition of knowledge management promises to get the right knowledge to the right people at the right time so they can make the best decision [G. Petrash, 1996]. Autonomic systems, on the other hand, are expected to find and apply the right knowledge for self-managing purposes without human intervention. This article discusses the components to be built around a system to enable self-healing and managing capabilities. These are defined and described in this article as Self-Knowledge, self-monitoring, self-learning, problem detection, diagnosis, and search and solution components. Interaction of these system components to make knowledge available for self-healing purposes is also discussed.
