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Socrates - Arguments of the Philosophers (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This is a philosophical study of Plato's Socrates-the man and his talks, his philosophical method, his questions, his arguments, and his beliefs about what is good and right.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136956591
• Artikelnr.: 43821495

Autorenporträt

Gerasimos Xenophon Santas

Inhaltsangabe

Part One THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CITIZEN I Introduction to Plato's Socrates
II Socrates and the Laws of Athens 1 Socrates' arguments in the Crito that
he ought not to escape from jail 2 Socrates' views in the Apology about the
citizen, his city, and its laws 3 Is there any inconsistency between the
Apology and the Crito? Part Two SOCRATIC METHOD III Socratic Questions and
Assumptions 1 A sample of Socrates' questions 2 Questions about Socratic
questions 3 The pragmatics of Socrates' questionings 4 The syntactics of
Socrates' questions 5 The semantics of Socrates' questions IV Socratic
Definitions 1 A list of all the definitions in the Socratic Dialogues 2 The
syntax and forms of Socratic definitions 3 The semantics of Socratic
definitions 4 The pragmatics of Socratic definitions 5 Criteria for
adequate Socratic definitions V Socratic Arguments 1 Variety of arguments 2
Method of analyzing arguments 3 Inductive analogies: from the
arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 4 Inductive generalizations: from the
arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 5 Deductive arguments: two indirect
arguments from the Lysis 6 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the
Lysis 7 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the Protagoras Part
Three SOCRATIC ETHICS VI Virtue and Knowledge I: The Socratic Paradoxes 1
The distinction between the prudential and the moral paradox 2 The
prudential paradox 3 The moral paradox VII Virtue and Knowledge II: An
Argument against Explanations of Weakness 1 The context and the strategy 2
The argument 3 Application of the argument to other cases 4 The strength
model 5 Weakness and compulsion VIII Power, Virtue, Pleasure, and Happiness
in the Gorgias 1 The issues of vittue and happiness 2 Socrates' arguments
that the unjust man is unhappy 3 Goods and evils and happiness and
unhappiness: Socrates and Polus 4 Callicles' view of virtue, pleasure, and
happiness 5 Socrates' attack on Callicles' view: the arguments against
justice by nature, and against hedonism 6 Virtue as health of the soul and
justice as medicine