Socratic turn : knowledge of good and evil in an age of science /

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...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Sebell, Dustin
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. 2016.
Cyfres:Haney Foundation series.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt17xx5gv
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction
  • part I
  • 1. The problem of the young Socrates
  • 2. What is science?
  • 3. The prospects for matter in motion
  • 4. Noetic heterogeneity
  • part II
  • 5. Teleology
  • part III
  • 6. Science and society
  • 7. Dialectic
  • Conclusion.