False virtues and pleasures in Plato’s Phaedo

Authors

  • Francisco Bravo Univ. Central de Venezuela

Keywords:

pleasure, virtue, Ethics, moral character

Abstract

In this paper the author intends to examine the opposition, established in the Phaedo, between “true virtue” and the false virtue called there by Socrates “popular and civic” virtue. The paper confirms the relationship between false virtues and weakness of character and false pleasures on the one hand, while on the other hand it gives an explanation of the role of phronesis in the constitution of true virtue.

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Published

2016-11-03

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No. 37 (2016)

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