The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy
by
Lorraine Smith Pangle
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance,...