Our Search with Socrates for Moral Truth / Gary Michael Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Gary Michael, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many people believe that when it comes to moral questions, anyone's opinion is as good as anyone else's.Teachers of philosophy, by exposing students to the full panoply of moral theory, can reinforce this prejudice towards skepticism even when they intend to challenge it.

Contents:

Contents; Apology for This Book; Part 1: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth; 1. Laches, Gorgias, and the Expert; 2. Meno, Knowledge, and Truth; 3. Euthyphro and Desire; 4. Gorgias, Apology, and Ignorance; 5. Phaedo, Meno, Apology, and Reason; Conclusion to Part 1: Lessons to Be Drawn; Part 2: The Search for Truth and the Good Dialectician; 6. Gorgias, Protgoras, and Dialectic: Four Traits of the Good Dialectician; 7. Dialectic and Order Getting Things Straight; 8. Gorgias, Republic, and the Ethics of the Cosmos; Conclusion to Part 2: Getting at the Whole Truth

Part 3: Ensuring Justice in the Soul9. Republic and the Governor; 10. Republic and the Four Forms of Injustice; 11. The Desires of the Good Dialectician; Conclusion to Part 3: Placing Order in the Dialectician's Soul; General Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Ahead; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2786-0

OCLC:

927405483