On the Moral Argument from the Perspective of Socrates-Plato's Craft Analogy
SocratesandPlato often made analogies between technical experts and those good persons who improve the soul of others,and between expert skills and moral knowledgein their early works.These analogies are based on the sharing of knowledge characteristics and some similarities in connotations between technical experts and good people.Through text analysis,the similarity between technical experts and good people,as well as the similarity between moral knowledge and expert skills,is local,while the difference between them is fundamental.The value level of moral knowledge is different from that of expert skills,and good persons and technical experts can be distinguished from different dimensions of goodness and evil.Their practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge have different conditional relationships,and the same goes for their handling relationships with the object.Therefore,similarities between themare not sufficient to form the model of Socrates-Plato's moral argument.