Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance: Comments on Buss

Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1):34-38 (2020)
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I respond to Sarah Buss first by considering Socrates as an exemplar of courageous resistance to injustice, then by adding two caveats: exemplary resistance seems to flow from very diverse psychological profiles, and cowardice may not always be best understood as expressing fearful self‐attachment.

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Rachel Barney
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