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Zusatztext Tackles one of the most fundamental questions for understanding Socratic ethics in Plato's earlier dialogues ... it will be widely read and stir up quite a bit of discussion. Klappentext In this study! George Rudebusch addresses whether Socrates was a hedonist -- whether he believed pleasure to be the good. In attempting to locate Socrates' position on hedonism! Rudebusch examines the passages in Plato's early dialogues that are the most disputed on the topic. He maintains that Socrates identifies pleasant activity with virtuous activity! describing Socrates' hedonism as one of activity! not sensation. This analysis allows for Socrates to find both virtue and pleasure to be the good! thus solving the textual puzzle and showing the power of Socratic argument in leading human beings toward the good. Zusammenfassung Rudebusch addresses the question of whether Socrates was a hedonist. In attempting to determine Socrates's position, he examines the passages in Plato's early dialogues that are most important to this controversy and draws important distinctions between two kinds of pleasure and between hedonism and Protagoreanism.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Plato's Aporetic Style
- 3: Ethical Protagoreanism
- 4: Callicles' Hedonism
- 5: Callicles Refuted
- 6: Death Is One of Two Things
- 7: The Intrinsic Value of Sense, Pleasure and Pain
- 8: The Righteous Are Happy
