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Socratic moral psychology /
"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 fairly recently, the view that, for Socrates, emoti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
Ã2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 fairly recently, 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 a new 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 276 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511776311 0511776314 9780511773730 0511773730 9780511772665 0511772661 0511776942 9780511776946 9781107403925 1107403928 0511848463 9780511848469 1107205476 9781107205475 1282655272 9781282655270 9786612655272 6612655275 0511775555 9780511775550 0511774796 9780511774799 |