The Foundations of Socratic EthicsGomez-Lobo argues that behind the facade of Socratic irony lies a strictly deductive system of ethics suspended from two axioms--one governing practical rationality and the other specifying the ingredients of the good life. In the Gorgias, the author contends, Plato tries to found Socratic ethics on a metaphysical principle about goodness in general, from which the axiom concerning the good life can be derived. |
Contents
Foreword 3 | 3 |
Is There a Socratic Moral Philosophy? | 11 |
Fundamentals of Ethics in the Apology | 33 |
Justifying a Decision The Crito | 45 |
The Confrontation with Polus | 71 |
Socrates and Hedonism in the Protagoras | 118 |
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