Euthyphro’s Elenchus Experience: Ethical Expertise and Self-Knowledge

The paper argues that everyday ethical expertise requires an openness to an experience of self-doubt very different from that involved in becoming expert in other skills—namely, an experience of profound vulnerability to the Other similar to that which Emmanuel Levinas has described. Since the exper...

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Main Author: Reed, Robert C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2013
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2013, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-259
Further subjects:B Ethical expertise
B Emmanuel Levinas
B Socrates
B Hubert Dreyfus
B Phenomenology of ethics
B Self-knowledge
B Euthyphro
B Elenchus
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