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Socratic Political Philosophy and the Problem of Virtue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

ROBERT C. BARTLETT
ROBERT C. BARTLETT
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Plato's Meno deserves careful examination today because it highlights two facets of the concern for virtue neglected or obscured by the current revival of virtue among liberal theorists: the devotion to a good that cannot simply be reduced either to individual flourishing or to communal well-being—what Plato calls “nobility” or “the noble”; and the complex relation of virtue so understood to the concern for religion or piety. If the sought-for incorporation of virtue into liberal thought and practice today fails to grapple with these profound human concerns, in the first place by recognizing their existence, the language of virtue and its attendant moral sentiments will remain a matter more of scholarly debate than of lived practice.

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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 525 - 533
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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