Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad
Review of Metaphysics, The › Vol. 61 Nbr. 2, December 2007
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Cloth, $85.00-In her new book Reshotko provides a thoughtful engagement with original texts, brings them into dialogue with contemporary debates, and extracts from them a coherent theory worth discussing in its own right. Human happiness is not tied to a moral sense of goodness, and Socrates does not pretend to supply moral commands or motivation to pursue virtue; rather he gives practical advice on how to go about pursuing one's own happiness: "Socratic ethics is a descriptive theory, from which an appropriate strategy concerning how one should act in order to become happy can be derived as a hypothetical imperative" (p. 59).
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Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad
RESHOTKO, Naomi. Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Ndther-Good-Nor-Bad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 204 pp. Cloth, $85.00-In her new book Reshotko provides a thoughtful engagement with original texts, brings them into...
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