Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith

Socratic Moral Psychology

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing against Socratic intellectualism, this book explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can lead to error.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403925
• ISBN-10: 1107403928
• Artikelnr.: 34752401

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Apology of Socratic studies
2. Motivational intellectualism
3. The 'prudential paradox'
4. Wrongdoing and damage to the soul
5. Educating the appetites and passions
6. Virtue intellectualism
7. Socrates and his intellectual heirs: Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
Appendix. Is Plato's Gorgias consistent with the other early or Socratic dialogues?
Bibliography of works cited
Index of passages
General index.