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    Plato’s Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality.W. Thomas Schmid - 1998 - State University of New York Press.
    Interprets Plato's Charmides as a microcosm of Socratic philosophy that presents Plato's vision of the life of critical reason and of its uneasy relation to political life in the ancient city.
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  2. The Definition of Racism.W. Thomas Schmid - 1996 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 13 (1):31-40.
    ABSTRACT This essay considers definitions of racism which emphasise its behavioural, motivational, and cognitive features. The behavioural definition (‘the failure to give equal consideration, based on the fact of race alone’) is rejected, primarily due to its inability to distinguish between ‘true’and ‘ordinary’racism. It is the former which is morally most objectionable — and which identifies the essence of the racist attitude and belief. The central part of the essay argues in favour of the motivational approach to the definition (‘the (...)
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    Socrates’ Practice of Elenchus in the Charmides.W. Thomas Schmid - 1981 - Ancient Philosophy 1 (2):141-147.
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    Philosophy and Moral Commitment.W. Thomas Schmid - 1982 - Ancient Philosophy 2 (2):134-141.
  5. Socratic Dialectic in the Charmides.W. Thomas Schmid - 2002 - In Gary Alan Scott (ed.), Does Socrates Have a Method?: Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 235-251.
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    The Socratic Conception of Courage.W. Thomas Schmid - 1985 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (2):113 - 129.