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Title: |
The Foundations of Socratic Ethics |
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| By (author): |
Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
| ISBN10-13: |
0872202364 : 9780872202368 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215.9x139.7mm |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Weight: |
.189 Kg. |
| Published: |
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. - January 2001 |
| List Price: |
13.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Subjects: |
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 : Ethics & moral philosophy |
Gomez-Lobo argues that behind the facade of Socratic irony lies a strictly deductive system of ethics suspended from two axioms--one governing practical rationality and the other specifying the ingredients of the good life. In the Gorgias, the author contends, Plato tries to found Socratic ethics on a metaphysical principle about goodness in general, from which the axiom concerning the good life can be derived. |
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"An indisputably noble tome that touches base with all the obvious ingredients, it has much to commend it..." -- Practical Philosophy, Autumn 2002.
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. . . very well written, very well organized, very economical, very clear and to the point. . . . a very solid, honest, well-thought-out and carried-out job. --Michael Frede, Oxford University
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