Socratic Moral Psychology

Name: Socratic Moral Psychology
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ISBN: 9781107403925

ISBN-10: 1107403928

ISBN-13: 9781107403925

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith

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Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. This book argues against the orthodox view of Socratic intellectualism and offers in its place a comprehensive alternative account that explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can influence human motivation and lead to error. Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith defend the study of Socrates'…

Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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Introduction


Acknowledgements



Apology of Socratic studies



Motivational intellectualism



The 'prudential paradox'



Wrongdoing and damage to the soul



Educating the appetites and passions



Virtue intellectualism



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