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'The Fixation of Belief', 'reports of career' and 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch'
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
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By 'areté' Socrates means just what we mean by moral virtue [Vlastos on Socrates]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue
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Socrates is torn between intellectual virtue, which is united and teachable, and natural virtue, which isn't [PG on Socrates]
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Socrates agrees that virtue is teachable, but then denies that there are teachers [Socrates, by MacIntyre]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
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We should ask what sort of people we want to be [Socrates]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
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Socrates believed that basically there is only one virtue, the power of right judgement [Socrates, by Williams,B]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
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Socrates made the civic values of justice and friendship paramount [Socrates, by Grayling]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
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Courage is scientific knowledge [Socrates, by Aristotle]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
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Socrates emphasises that the knower is an existing individual, with existence his main task [Socrates, by Kierkegaard]
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Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]
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