Socratic Virtue : Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad

Name: Socratic Virtue
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521124263
Price: 6150 KES
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ISBN: 9780521124263

by Naomi Reshotko

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521124263

ISBN-13 9780521124263

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 3rd, 2009

Print length 220 Pages

Weight 342 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 23.00 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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An account of how Socrates integrates notions of desire, virtue, and happiness to give an ethical and psychological theory. It makes an important contribution to the study of the Platonic dialogues and will also interest all scholars of ethics and moral psychology.

Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory allowed him to demonstrate that actions and objects have no value other than that which they derive from their employment by individuals who, inevitably, desire their own happiness and have the knowledge to use actions and objects as a means for its attainment. The result is a naturalised, practical, and demystified account of good and bad, and right and wrong. Professor Reshotko presents a freshly envisioned Socratic theory residing at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and ethics. It makes an important contribution to the study of the Platonic dialogues and will also interest all scholars of ethics and moral psychology.

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