| Description |
320 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
What Is Virtue? -- What Is Moderation? -- What Is Justice? -- What Is Good? -- What Is Courage? -- What Is Piety? -- Is Excellence Still Possible? |
| Summary |
"In Six Questions of Socrates, Christopher Phillips poses Socrates' "original" questions - as recorded by Plato - in the most diverse cultural circumstances. This unconventional method of discussion brings out surprising commonalities - he begins with "What is virtue?" in the remains of an ancient marketplace in Athens and moves on to a Navajo reservation in the Southwest, where it turns out that the Navajo conception of virtue, hozho, includes a sense of order and harmony with the natural world both similar to and distinct from the conception of the ancient Greeks. In Detroit, Phillips discusses "What is moderation?" with a group of twenty Muslim women, some veiled, some not, who explain to him the Koranic notion of a "just mean" or "balance between extremes."" |
| Notes |
Includes Tips on starting your own Socrates cafe by Christopher Phillips and Cecilia Phillips |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Socrates.
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Philosophy.
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Ethics, Comparative.
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Philosophy, Comparative.
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Virtues.
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Virtues.
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| Author |
Phillips, Cecilia.
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| LC no. |
2003018200 |
| ISBN |
0393326799 paperback |
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0393051579 |
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