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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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
2016.
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| Series: | Haney Foundation series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt17xx5gv |
Table of Contents:
- 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.