TY - BOOK ID - 298929 TI - Socratic moral psychology AU - Brickhouse, Thomas C. AU - Smith, Nicholas D. PY - 2010 SN - 9780521198431 0521198437 9780511776946 9781107403925 9780511776311 0511776314 9780511773730 0511773730 9780511772665 0511772661 0511776942 0511848463 1107205476 1282655272 9786612655272 0511775555 0511774796 1107403928 9780511848469 9781107205475 9781282655270 6612655275 9780511775550 9780511774799 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Socrates KW - Ethics. KW - Socrate KW - Socrates Constantinopolitanus Scholasticus KW - Psychology. KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Mental philosophy KW - Mind KW - Science, Mental KW - Human biology KW - Philosophy KW - Soul KW - Mental health KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Sokrates KW - Sokrat, KW - Sokrates, KW - Suqrāṭ, KW - Su-ko-la-ti, KW - Sugeladi, KW - Sokuratesu, KW - Sākreṭīsa, KW - Socrate, KW - سقراط, KW - Σωκράτης, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:298929 AB - Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. This book argues against the orthodox view of Socratic intellectualism and offers in its place a comprehensive alternative account that explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can influence human motivation and lead to error. Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith defend the study of Socrates' philosophy and offer an alternative interpretation of Socratic moral psychology. Their novel account of Socrates' conception of virtue and how it is acquired shows that Socratic moral psychology is considerably more sophisticated than scholars have supposed. ER -