From Protagoras to Aristotle - Oxbow Books.
These philosophers, Plato and Aristotle were philosophers in ancient Greece who studied ethics, politics, science, and more. Both Aristotle and Plato had their own beliefs about moral philosophy, but Aristotle’s is more convincing. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. Stagira, a town that was north of Athens, and was one of the greatest thinkers who.
Although Aristotle is deeply indebted to Plato's moral philosophy, particularly Plato's central insight that moral thinking must be integrated with our emotions and appetites, and that the preparation for such unity of character should begin with childhood education, the systematic character of Aristotle's discussion of these themes was a.
Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith defend the study of Socrates' philosophy and offer an alternative interpretation of Socratic moral psychology. Their novel account of Socrates' conception of virtue and how it is acquired shows that Socratic moral psychology is considerably more sophisticated than scholars have supposed.
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From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new.
Plato and Aristotle both find that it leads to an incoherent relativism — that view that truth is merely what any given individual takes it to be. If this is a correct reading of the statement, then indeed, Protagoras has a problem on his hands. Aristotle argues that this claim undermines any productive discourse.
Princeton University Press 2007, ISBN 9781400827107 Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (ed.), Princeton University Hard determinism (2,119 words) (view diff) exact match in snippet view article find links to article.