Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
I discover resources in Plato’s Charmides for a critique of management as a form of knowledge. After interpreting in a practical register Critias’ idea of a science that would comprehend all sciences without understanding any of their objects (166c – 175a), I argue that the paradoxes with which Socrates confronts this idea can be overcome. With reference to F.W. Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management, I show how this overcoming depends upon transforming productive activity so that it no longer requires the knowledge of products that characterizes techne. As Socrates foresaw, a science that has all ways of working as its object must have somehow expropriated work of its own proper objects
DOI
10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-1-7-28
Recommended Citation
Knies, K. (2023). Plato's critique of scientific management in Charmides. Schole, 17(1), 7-28. Doi:10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-1-7-28
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Comments
"A Journal of the Centre for Ancient Philosophy and The Classical Tradition."