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Living Toward Virtue - Practical Ethics in the Spirit of Socrates (Hardcover)
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Living Toward Virtue - Practical Ethics in the Spirit of Socrates (Hardcover)
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Socrates urged his followers to commit to a lifelong activity of
nurturing the moral health of the soul through self-examination. By
contrast, modern philosophers who follow Aristotle in ethics have
mostly taught that living well depends on having virtues or traits
that are robust traits of character. But traits are not reliable in
all situations, and they do not help us make hard decisions. Having
a trait is no substitute for the Socratic activity we need to
practice in order to live toward virtue. In Living Toward Virtue,
Paul Woodruff shows how we can set about living ethically, drawing
on what Socrates called Human Wisdom - a philosophy centered on the
recognition of the limits of our moral knowledge. Woodruff uses
this ancient set of ideas to develop a practical approach to ethics
that goes beyond what Plato tells us of Socrates, in order to show
how we can nurture our souls, enjoy a virtuous happiness, and avoid
moral injury. Paul Woodruff's Living Toward Virtue shows how richly
a Socratic approach to the moral challenges of life can reward us.
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