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The Socratic turn : knowledge of good and evil in an age of science / Dustin Sebell.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sebell, Dustin, author.
- Series:
- Haney Foundation series.
- Haney Foundation Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science, Ancient.
- Socrates.
- Plato. Phaedo.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in life-after he had rejected materialistic natural science-that he finally turned, around the age of forty, to the examination of ordinary moral and political opinions, or to moral-political philosophy so understood. Through a consideration of Plato's account of Socrates' intellectual development, and with a view to relevant works of the pre-Socratics, Xenophon, Aristotle, Hesiod, Homer, and Aristophanes, Dustin Sebell reproduces the course of thought that carried Socrates from materialistic natural science to moral-political philosophy. By doing so, he seeks to recover an all but forgotten approach to the question of justice, one still worthy of being called scientific.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1. The Problem of the Young Socrates
- Chapter 2. What Is Science?
- Chapter 3. The Prospects for Matter in Motion
- Chapter 4. Noetic Heterogeneity
- Part II
- Chapter 5. Teleology
- Part III
- Chapter 6. Science and Society
- Chapter 7. Dialectic
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 10, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9780812292244
- 0812292243
- OCLC:
- 926092730
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