The facts of the human body, evolutionary, physiological, social, and systemic, as experienced and symbolized (often differently) by every human, necessarily set the standards, and the limits, of human minds, and of theories about them. Following Turner (1994), who conjures the ghost of Plato conjuring the ghost of Socrates conjuring the ghost of Protagoras, we may call (1) Protagoras’s Principle:

Following insights by Pierre Hadot, I suggest that although explicit discussions of practices breath control and other psychosomatic techniques contemplative attention management are conspicuously absent in early Greek thought, there some signs analogous did exist, perhaps as Socrates. The combined evidence Aristophanes Plato suggests Socrates may have engaged a practice has key features common...

Knowledge is a topic that covers many disciplines with writers attempting to formulate an understanding of it and its relevance to their field. Philosophical frameworks may offer a way to gain a deeper appreciation of its relevance to management and organisations, looking in particular at Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.