... Western virtues, Dewey holds, are instantiations of one or more of these four dispositions that he proposes as the "cardinal virtues of moral theory."(17) For example, integrity, love, and justice are forms of wholeheartedness and amenability to practical wisdom. Courage is wholeheartedness, amenability to practical wisdom, and energy - and so on. The shortcomings of this simplified sort of Augustinian treatment of ... fully developed adult Greek male - a person who has successfully realized his potential for the exercise of the specifically human function of rational activity, involving...

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... to try get at true answers to definite questions. Socrates was not a skeptic, either. He frequently claimed not to know anything about the subjects of his conversations (piety, virtue, beauty, courage, etc.). To some extent, Socrates is adopting a pose in order to get the dialectic rolling -- to prompt his interlocutor to propose a definition of virtue, piety, etc. But on the other ... ideas and be able to talk about these ideas. That would be the connection between truth and dialectic. 3. The Platonic writing, the Crito, explores the issue of whether individuals have a moral obligation...

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