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

Comments

"A Journal of the Centre for Ancient Philosophy and The Classical Tradition."

DOI

10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-1-7-28

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