TY  - GEN
T1  - Socratic turn : knowledge of good and evil in an age of science
T2  - Haney Foundation series.
A1  - Sebell, Dustin
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn926092730
AB  - The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in life--after he had rejected materialistic natural science--that he finally turned, around the age of forty, to the examination of ordinary moral and political opinions, or to moral-political philosophy so understood. Through a consideration of Plato's account of Socrates' intellectual development, and with a view to relevant works of the pre-Socratics, Xenophon, Aristotle, Hesiod, Homer, and Aristophanes, Dustin Sebell reproduces the course of thought that carried Socrates from materialistic natural science to moral-political philosophy. By doing so, he seeks to recover an all but forgotten approach to the question of justice, one still worthy of being called scientific.
CN  - B317 .S43 2016eb
SN  - 0812292243
SN  - 9780812292244
SN  - 0812247809
SN  - 9780812247800
KW  - Socrates.
KW  - Plato. : Phaedo.
KW  - Socrates
KW  - Phaedo (Plato)
KW  - Science, Ancient.
KW  - Sciences anciennes.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Political.
KW  - Science, Ancient
KW  - Political Science.
KW  - Public Policy.
ER  -