Socratic Studies

Socratic Studies

Gregory Vlastos

Language: English

Pages: 168

ISBN: 0521447356

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This is the companion volume to Gregory Vlastos' highly acclaimed Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Four ground-breaking papers that laid the basis for his understanding of Socrates are collected here, together with a fifth chapter that is a new and provocative discussion of Socrates' arguments in the Protagoras and Laches. The Epilogue, "Socrates and Vietnam," suggests that Socrates was not, as Plato claimed, the most just man of his time.

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Follows (either in general3 or for the special purpose of some particular investigation4), the "Socrates" who speaks for Socrates in the earlier dialogues never uses this word5 and never discusses his method of investigation. He never troubles to say why his way of searching is the way to discover truth or even what this way of searching is. He has An earlier draft of this essay was delivered as one of a series of lectures on "The Philosophy of Socrates" at the University of St. Andrews in the.

We know something, while in a sufficiently different context we would be reluctant to say we know it and might even prefer to deny that we do, and this without any sense of having contradicted ourselves thereby. Consider the proposition, "Very heavy smoking is a cause of cancer." Ordinarily I would have no hesitation in saying that I know this, though I have not researched the subject and have not tried to learn even the half of what could be learned from those who have. Now suppose that I am.

Contrary, harmful and evil?" "Yes." "And would you say that that sort of thing, evil and harmful, is noble?" "That would not be right, Socrates." "So you would not consider it courage, for it is not the noble thing which courage is?" "True." "So according to this argument courage would be wise endurance?" When Laches agrees - he could hardly do otherwise - it looks as though Socrates would concede that courage is wise endurance. But he does not. What he now wants to know is what sort of wisdom.

Technical skill: unskilled swimmers are said to dive into wells \xr\ OVTES 6EIVO{. But this occurs only for the nonce. 8EIV6S is not reserved for this use. Socrates would have been as likely to express the same thought by saying uf) OVTES i The Protagoras and Laches 113 dom5 — between wise choice of moral ends and practical astuteness in devising means to the attainment of morally unweighted ends? We can see how he does the job in the Apology and the Crito, on one hand, in the Laches, on the.

Single passage shows up the weakness of the view he is trying to shore up. When we dismiss it, as we should, we are left with a passage expounding a syntactic distinction between each of the specific virtues and virtue (dpeTf) TIS VS. dpETTj), matching the semantic distinction between a proper part and the whole to which it belongs, which leaves no doubt that Socrates will have none of the conception of the identity of the virtues with one another and with virtue which Penner, Taylor, and Irwin.

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