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Socrates, pleasure, and value
Title:
Socrates, pleasure, and value
Author:
Rudebusch, George, 1957-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
xiii, 169 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- Plato's aporetic style -- Ethical Protagoreanism -- Callicles' hedonism -- Callicles refuted -- Death is one of two things -- The intrinsic value of sense pleasure and pain -- The righteous are happy -- Does Socrates consistently hold the sufficiency thesis? -- How Socrates can make both pleasure and virtue the chief good.
Reading Level:
1370 Lexile.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780195128550
Format :
Book