 In this account, the focus is on a kind of knowledge as the active ingredient in happiness. The other parts of the account are certain assets that seem as passive in relation to wisdom as wood and tools are to the carpenter. Socratic intellectualism has been criticized for either ignoring the non-rational, desiderative and volitional causes of human action or providing an implausibly rationalist account of them. In either case, the common charge is that it fails to account for or appreciate the apparent complexities of moral psychology.