The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies write by Roslyn Weiss. This book was released on 2006-06-20. The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one—are best understood as Socrates’ way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence. In Weiss’s view, the paradoxes express Socrates’ belief that wrongdoing fails to yield the happiness that all people want; it is therefore the unjust and immoderate who are the fools. The paradoxes thus emerge as Socrates’ means of championing the cause of justice in the face of those who would impugn it. Her fresh approach—ranging over six of Plato’s dialogues—is sure to spark debate in philosophy, classics, and political theory. “Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues.”—Daniel B. Gallagher, Classical Outlook “Many scholars of Socratic philosophy . . . will wish they had written Weiss's book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it.”—Douglas V. Henry, Review of Politics
The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies
The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies write by Roslyn Weiss. This book was released on 2008-09-15. The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one—are best understood as Socrates’ way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence. In Weiss’s view, the paradoxes express Socrates’ belief that wrongdoing fails to yield the happiness that all people want; it is therefore the unjust and immoderate who are the fools. The paradoxes thus emerge as Socrates’ means of championing the cause of justice in the face of those who would impugn it. Her fresh approach—ranging over six of Plato’s dialogues—is sure to spark debate in philosophy, classics, and political theory. “Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues.”—Daniel B. Gallagher, Classical Outlook “Many scholars of Socratic philosophy . . . will wish they had written Weiss's book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it.”—Douglas V. Henry, Review of Politics
The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies
The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies write by Roslyn Weiss. This book was released on 2006. The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Socrates write by Donald R. Morrison. This book was released on 2011. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2
Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2 write by Karl Raimund Popper. This book was released on 1966. Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.
