Research Catalog

Title

Our search with Socrates for moral truth / Gary Michael Atkinson.

Author

Atkinson, Gary Michael, 1943-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2015]

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Description

xx, 224 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Atkinson's method is to uncover the traits necessary for a person's being qualified to examine moral issues in a capable and competent manner. In the process he also discovers features which hinder a person being a competent thinker about moral questions. The reader is guided through this search by engaging Socrates as he appears in Plato's dialogues, not merely as a historical figure, but as an interlocutor. This path proceeds without begging any questions; its argument begins with no assumptions about which moral beliefs might be true, which false, or even if moral truth exists. On the contrary, the book begins only with the supposition that there might be moral truth. And yet, by following Socrates on the attempt to ascertain its existence, the reader is brought into the realm of moral knowledge and becomes acquainted with the ideal of a genuine seeker of moral truth, an ideal which can be embraced as a guidepost to becoming a better and more fulfilled human being. --Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Plato
• Socrates
• Dialogues (Plato)
• Ethics
• Morale
• ethics (philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Laches, Gorgias, and the expert -- Meno, knowledge, and truth -- Euthyphro and desire -- Gorgias, Apology, and ignorance -- Phaedo, Meno, Apology, and reason -- Gorgias, Protagoras, and dialectic: four traits of the good dialectician -- Dialectic and order: getting things straight -- Gorgias, Republic, and the ethics of the cosmos -- Republic and the governor -- Republic and the four forms of injustice -- The desires of the good dialectician.

ISBN

• 9780813227856
• 0813227852
• 9780813227863 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2015016659
• 40025377363

OCLC

908146219

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library