Virtue Is knowledge : the moral foundations of Socratic political philosophy / Lorraine Smith Pangle.

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Pangle, Lorraine Smith [author.]

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226136684
022613668X
1306709563
9781306709569

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtue Is Knowledge.DDC classification:

184.0 23 22

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B317

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CD 3067

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Contents:

Education and corruption: Apology -- The critique of retribution: Gorgias -- Virtue and knowledge: Meno -- The unity of virtue: Protagoras -- The Socratic thesis applied: Laws.

Summary: The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker?Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature.

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The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker?Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature.

Education and corruption: Apology -- The critique of retribution: Gorgias -- Virtue and knowledge: Meno -- The unity of virtue: Protagoras -- The Socratic thesis applied: Laws.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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