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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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6SocratesIn Christopher Shields (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell. 1987.This chapter contains sections titled: “Socratic Problem” and Sources on Socrates Socrates' “Method” and Moral Viewpoints Socrates' Religious Views Socratic Irony and Rhetoric Socratic Ignorance and Socratic Knowledge Socrates' Influence on Later Philosophers References and Recommended Reading.
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6The Socratic ParadoxesIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: The Prudential Paradox The Meno Argument Socrates’ Argument against “The Many” in the Protagoras Knowledge and Belief What Endows an Object with the Power of Appearance? Does Socrates have the Metrētikē Technē? The Moral Paradox Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle Note.
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3Robin Barrow, "Plato and Education" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 16 (3): 344. 1978.
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Socratic Moral PsychologyCambridge University Press. 2010.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 publication of this book, 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 t…Read more
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Socrates and His Daimonion: Correspondence among Gregory Vlastos, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Mark L. McPherran, and Nicholas D. Smith (review)In Nicholas D. Smith & Paul Woodruff (eds.), Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 176--204. 2000.
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Socratic moral psychologyIn John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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