Socratic Moral Psychology

Thomas C. Brickhouse is John Franklin East Professor of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Lynchburg College, Virginia. He is the co-author (with Nicholas D. Smith) of The Philosophy of Socrates (2000) and the co-editor (with Nicholas D. Smith) of The Trial and Execution of Socrates (2002). Nicholas D. Smith is James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College, Portland. He is the co-author (with Thomas C. Brickhouse) of Plato and the Trial of Socrates (2004) and the author of papers on Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary epistemology.

• Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Apology of Socratic studies; 2. Motivational intellectualism; 3. The 'prudential paradox'; 4. Wrongdoing and damage to the soul; 5. Educating the appetites and passions; 6. Virtue intellectualism; 7. Socrates and his intellectual heirs: Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics; Appendix. Is Plato's Gorgias consistent with the other early or Socratic dialogues?; Bibliography of works cited; Index of passages; General index.

"....Overall the book has much to recommend it, not least of which is the lively and engaging style in which the authors have managed to express what is.... provided scholarly and intelligent arguments for what remains a challenging and unorthodox thesis. The book deserves to be widely read." --Scott Carson, Ohio University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review