Nicholas D. Smith

Socrates on Self-Improvement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explains how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515532
• ISBN-10: 1316515532
• Artikelnr.: 61263443

Autorenporträt

Nicholas D. Smith is James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College. He has written and edited many books on ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary epistemology, including Plato's Socrates (with T.C. Brickhouse, 1994), Socratic Moral Psychology (with T. C. Brickhouse, Cambridge, 2010), and Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Socrates as exemplar
2. Socrates as apprentice at virtue
3. Socratic motivational intellectualism
4. Socratic ignorance
5. Is virtue sufficient for happiness
6. The necessity of virtue for happiness
Afterword. Review and assessment.