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The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science

Name: The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science
ISBN: 9780812247800

Dustin Sebell

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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.

Категории:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics

Година:

2015

Издателство:

University of Pennsylvania Press

Език:

english

Страници:

232

ISBN 10:

0812247809