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Free Download Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa
English | October 1, 2001 | ISBN: 0691086931 | True EPUB | 380 pages | 0.5 MB
Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville’s ”nation of joiners” seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of citizenship or the responsibilities of self-government. In response, the critics urge community involvement and renewed education in the civic virtues. But what kind of civic engagement do we want, and what sort of citizenship should we encourage? In Socratic Citizenship, Dana Villa takes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. He argues that we need to place more value on a form of conscientious, moderately alienated citizenship invented by Socrates, one that is critical in orientation and dissident in practice.

Free Download Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad By Naomi Reshotko
2006 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0521846188 | PDF | 2 MB
Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory allowed him to demonstrate that actions and objects have no value other than that which they derive from their employment by individuals who, inevitably, desire their own happiness and have the knowledge to use actions and objects as a means for its attainment. The result is a naturalised, practical, and demystified account of good and bad, and right and wrong. Professor Reshotko presents a freshly envisioned Socratic theory residing at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and ethics. It makes an important contribution to the study of the Platonic dialogues and will also interest all scholars of ethics and moral psychology.

Free Download Dustin A. Gish, "Xenophon’s Socratic Rhetoric: Virtue, Eros, and Philosophy in the Symposium"
English | ISBN: 1666903167 | 2022 | 390 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB

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Free Download The Socratic Dialogues: Alcibiades and Other Attributed Dialogues (Audiobook)
English | July 06, 2023 | ASIN: B0C63BM9N1 | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 32m | 247 MB
Author: Plato | Narrators: David Rintoul, Paul Panting, Nigel Pilkington
The influence of Plato, his Dialogues and his ‘Academy’, cast a long shadow. Around 35 Dialogues, almost all featuring Socrates as the principal figure, are generally ascribed to Plato and form one of the most important threads in Western philosophy. These four Dialogues may fall into the ‘Attributed Texts’ category, but they are of sufficient interest to warrant study in our time and when set against the principal canon.
The recording opens with Alcibiades I. Socrates’ interlocuter is well known as a charismatic young figure of the time, and appears in the Symposium and Protagoras. The subject under discussion is justice and injustice. Socrates questions the over-confident Alcibiades about his understanding of these issues, which is crucial for someone about to play an active role in public life. It is the longest Dialogue of the four.

Free Download Ramin Jahanbegloo, "Gadflies in the Public Space: A Socratic Legacy of Philosophical Dissent"
English | ISBN: 1498541453 | 2016 | 122 pages | EPUB | 1422 KB
The concept of disobedient consciousness and the rebellious Socratic mind that grows out of this book is, above all, a product of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s life meetings with the two apparently contradictory worlds of philosophy and politics. More precisely, it is the result of approaching the public realm in terms of a philosophical quest for truth and justice. This restless quest for truth and justice has a history that continues to bear upon us, however much we choose to ignore it. We can think about the current situation of philosophy by exploring that history. The image of Socrates represents a mid-point between politics and philosophy; the Socratic mind, exemplified by the presence of the public gadfly in history, finds itself at the beginning of a new struggle for truth. The journey to this struggle started with the trial of Socrates, followed by the experiences of Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Albert Camus. But the forging of the rebellious mind and the sustaining of the civic task of philosophy are goals which impose themselves to each of us whenever we are reminded by the urgency of critical thinking in our own dark times. The future of humankind necessarily requires convictions and commitments, but it also requires Socratic rebels, of the mind and of action, who have the courage to swim against the tide.