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Argues that the Socratic paradoxes are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence.

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"Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues." - Daniel B. Gallagher, Classical Outlook "Many scholars of Socratic philosophy...will wish they had written Weiss's book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it." - Douglas V. Henry, Review of Politics"

The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226891736, 978-0226891736
      ISBN10: 0226891739
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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      Argues that the Socratic paradoxes are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence.

      Trade Review
      "Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues." - Daniel B. Gallagher, Classical Outlook "Many scholars of Socratic philosophy...will wish they had written Weiss's book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it." - Douglas V. Henry, Review of Politics"

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