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145Plato's Socrates (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1994.Brickhouse and Smith cast new light on Plato's early dialogues by providing novel analyses of many of the doctrines and practices for which Socrates is best known. Included are discussions of Socrates' moral method, his profession of ignorance, his denial of akrasia, as well as his views about the relationship between virtue and happiness, the authority of the State, and the epistemic status of his daimonion.
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19Apology of Socratic StudiesPolis 20 (1-2): 108-127. 2003.In this paper, we defend Socratic studies as a research programme against several recent attacks, including at least one recently published in Polis. Critics have argued that the study of Socrates, based upon evidence mostly or entirely derived from some set of Plato’s dialogues, is sfounded upon faulty and indefensible historical or hermeneutical technique. We begin by identifying what we believe are the foundational principles of Socratic studies, as the field has been pursued in recent years,…Read more
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6Socrates on Punishment and the Law:Apology 25c5-26b2In Marcelo D. Boeri, Yasuhira Y. Kanayama & Jorge Mittelmann (eds.), Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychologial Issues in Plato and Aristotle, Springer. pp. 37-53. 2018.In his interrogation of Meletus in Plato’s version of Socrates’ defense speech, Socrates offers an interesting argument that promises to provide important evidence for his views about crime and punishment—if only we can understand how the argument is supposed to work. It is our project in this paper to do that. We argue that there are two main problems with the argument: one is that it is not obvious how to make the argument valid; the other is that the argument seems to rely on a distinction th…Read more
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Socratic moral psychologyIn John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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34Socratic Teaching and Socratic MethodIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 177. 2009.
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114Socrates and the Laws of AthensPhilosophy Compass 1 (6). 2006.The claim that the citizen's duty is to “persuade or obey” the laws, expressed by the personified Laws of Athens in Plato's Crito, continues to receive intense scholarly attention. In this article, we provide a general review of the debates over this doctrine, and how the various positions taken may or may not fit with the rest of what we know about Socratic philosophy. We ultimately argue that the problems scholars have found in attributing the doctrine to Socrates derive from an anachronistic …Read more
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115Socrates and the Unity of the VirtuesThe Journal of Ethics 1 (4): 311-324. 1997.In the Protagoras, Socrates argues that each of the virtue-terms refers to one thing (: 333b4). But in the Laches (190c8–d5, 199e6–7), Socrates claims that courage is a proper part of virtue as a whole, and at Euthyphro 11e7–12e2, Socrates says that piety is a proper part of justice. But A cannot be both identical to B and also a proper part of B – piety cannot be both identical to justice and also a proper part of justice. In this paper we argue that coherent sense can be made of Socrates'' app…Read more
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254Socrates on the EmotionsPlato Journal 15 9-28. 2015.In this paper we argue that Socrates is a cognitivist about emotions, but then ask how the beliefs that constitute emotions can come into being, and why those beliefs seem more resistant to change through rational persuasion than other beliefs.
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47Rosamond Kent Sprague, "Plato's Philosopher-King: A Study of the Theoretical Background" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (3): 331. 1979.
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3Robin Barrow, "Plato and Education" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 16 (3): 344. 1978.
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13Roberts on Responsibility for Action and Character in the Nicomachean EthicsAncient Philosophy 11 (1): 137-148. 1991.
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37The Religion of SocratesPhilosophical Review 108 (2): 279. 1999.This book is without doubt the most meticulously researched, carefully argued, and comprehensive study of Socratic religion to date. When McPherran refers to the religion of Socrates, he means the religion of the historical Socrates. Like many contemporary scholars, McPherran thinks that Plato’s early dialogues are generally reliable sources for the views of the historical Socrates. With uncommon clarity, the author develops the philosophical and religious commitments of this Socrates and shows …Read more
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Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |