Dialogue and Discovery

Dialogue and DiscoveryThis book examines the Socratic method of elenchus, or refutation. Refutation by its very nature is a conflict, which in the hands of Plato becomes high drama. The continuing conversation in which it occurs is more a test of character than of intellect. Dialogue and Discovery shows that, in his conversations, Socrates seeks to define moral qualities moral essences with the goal of improving the soul of the respondent. Ethics underlies epistemology

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The Paradoxes of Nationalism explores a critical stage in the development of the principle of national self-determination: the years of the French Revolution

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