Socrates favoured _truth_ as the highest value, proposing that it could be discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions. To Socrates, _truth_, not _aretē_, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one's life.
Wiki "dialectics" On May 16, 2013, at 12:08 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > It is generally thought dialectics has become > central to "Continental" philosophy, while it > plays no part in "Anglo-American" philosophy. > In other words, on the continent of Europe, > dialectics has entered intellectual culture as > what might be called a legitimate part of thought > and philosophy, whereas in America and Britain, > the dialectic plays no discernible part in the > intellectual culture, which instead tends toward > positivism. > > Google "positivism" > > .. > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
