Revista Filosofía UIS

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2011): Revista Filosofía UIS
Reflection Paper

Thinking, acting and being

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  • Susi Ferrarello
Susi Ferrarello
Universidad de Loyola (Roma).
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Published 2011-07-15

Keywords

  • logic,
  • ethics,
  • psychology,
  • phenomenology,
  • values,
  • epoché,
  • eudaimonía
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Ferrarello, S. (2011). Thinking, acting and being. Revista Filosofía UIS, 10(1), 177–190. Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafilosofiauis/article/view/2626

Copyright (c) 2011 Susi Ferrarello

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Abstract

Thinking, acting and being are pivotal poles of our daily life, involving epistemological and practical faculties. To understand the balance between what we know and we do, we should figure out to what extent our being affects epistemological and practical choices. The questions I raise in this paper concern the boundaries of logic, ethics and psychology and the influence mutually exerted. My aim here is to display the part taken by logic and ethics in every identity and to figure out how fluid their presence is (if any). I wonder, particularly if there is a kind of paradox in moral philosophy. Indeed, we learn from the Delphic and Socratic saying the wise imperative –“γνῶθι σεαυτόν” (“know thyself”)– but it is quite apparent that we cannot get all that we know about ourselves out. Hence in this paper I am going to sift the meaning of this imperative in order to figure out if we have to take it as a sort of epistemological imperative or as an ethical one.

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