Socratic Moral Psychology
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 6 May 2010
- ISBN 9780521198431
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 229x152x21 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Arguing against Socratic intellectualism, this book explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can lead to error.
MoreLong description:
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' philosophy and offer an alternative interpretation of Socratic moral psychology. Their novel account of Socrates' conception of virtue and how it is acquired shows that Socratic moral psychology is considerably more sophisticated than scholars have supposed.
"....Overall the book has much to recommend it, not least of which is the lively and engaging style in which the authors have managed to express what is.... provided scholarly and intelligent arguments for what remains a challenging and unorthodox thesis. The book deserves to be widely read."
--Scott Carson, Ohio University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Apology of Socratic studies; 2. Motivational intellectualism; 3. The 'prudential paradox'; 4. Wrongdoing and damage to the soul; 5. Educating the appetites and passions; 6. Virtue intellectualism; 7. 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.
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