Wrong Turns in the Euthyphro

Apeiron ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Paul Woodruff
Keyword(s):  
Proper Part ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
The Way

Abstract No Socratic theory of forms is implied by the questions Socrates asks in Plato’s Euthyphro. His questions appear to commit him to the existence of a certain kind of paradigm form in the Euthyphro, but there is no place for such a form in his philosophy, and that is a good thing, for such a form cannot exist. As stated, the main question does not have an answer, but it is reasonable for Socrates to ask it in the context of Euthyphro’s claims. if they could be supported, Socrates’ question would have an answer. But Euthyphro’s claims are not supportable. The turn toward a paradigm form for piety is a wrong turn; the turn toward the part-whole relation is another. Piety cannot be a proper part of justice on any view that is plausibly Socratic. Piety concerns the whole of virtue in a way that distinguishes it from primary virtues such as justice, and this point prepares the way for Socrates’ defense in the Apology.

Clients Toward Whom a Social Worker Feels Attraction

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Working Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
The Way

The broad nature of the social work profession offers opportunities for practitioners to work with diverse clients. While committed to the welfare of all clients, social workers tend to be drawn to some clients more than others, due in part to their abilities to connect with them. A social worker’s positive feelings about his or her clients is a good thing, but it is possible that at times he or she will experience a special fondness or attraction for a client that can create biases that get in the way of a constructive working relationship. The purposes of this chapter are to explore the circumstances in which positive feelings about clients develop and to suggest ways for social workers to manage those feelings in a way that keeps their focus on the client’s welfare.

Accountability, information, and yardstick competition

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-76
Author(s):  
Pierre Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Yardstick Competition ◽  
Industrial Economics ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
To Come ◽  
Original Habitat ◽  
The Way

The chapter follows the logic of the relation between downward accountability, the information asymmetry faced by voters or citizens, and yardstick competition. Assuming that the accountability perspective is adopted, the main question is the information available to citizens. In important policy domains it is difficult to mitigate the information asymmetry faced by citizens in the absence of yardstick comparisons. This offers a role for these comparisons and with them yardstick competition to come to the rescue of accountability. A similar logic inspired the way tournaments and yardstick competition were introduced, in the 1980s, in the fields of labor and industrial economics. The last part of the chapter recalls some characteristics of that work and discusses the way they must be adapted, with some discarded (namely the contractual dimension), when the analysis is transposed from its original habitat to the agency relation between citizens and incumbents.

Vraagontwijking Van Manlijke en Vrouwelijke Politici en Niet-politici

2007 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Erica Huls
Keyword(s):  
Political Activity ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Answering Questions ◽  
The Way ◽  
News Interviews

News interviews play an important role in the way the formation of opinions. The details of this type of interaction have been studied quite recently by a number of scholars. In this study observational categories for evasive conversational behaviour, as proposed by these researchers, are applied to interviewees differing in gender and political activity. Its main question is: do interviewees of different gender and political commitment differ in their evasive reactions to questions? The data consist of 32 10-minute clips from interviews broadcast on Dutch TV or radio in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In the analysis, four different types of evasion were distinguished: 1 Evasion by changing the discourse roles. Interviewees can avoid answering questions by adopting behaviour typical of the interviewer role, such as posing counter questions, listening actively instead of speaking, or changing the agenda of the interview. 2 Evasion by playing with the rules for turn taking, for example, by interrupting the interviewer. 3 Evasion by couching the answer in avoiding terms or by being polite and indirect. 4 Evasion by questioning the question (its relevance, appropriateness or formulation), questioning a presupposition or giving a non-answer. Not surprisingly, the results show that politicians are more evasive than non-politicians. Less predictably, however, they also show that males are more evasive than females. The effect of gender is not as strong as that of political activity. When comparing male and female politicians, it turns out that both groups are often evasive, but make use of different means. Female non-politicians use evasions remarkably infrequently.

If I could only make a decree

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
David R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
College Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Educators ◽  
The Way

President of state mathematics council cannot make decrees, and that is a good thing! I am pleased that I do not have that power- and yet, if I did, I would make but one decree. This dec ree would affect all mathematics educators in the nationelementary, junior high, econdary, and college teachers! That's the way decrees hould be made. They should affect the total population.

scholarly journals Europa skończona?

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Jędrzej Napieralski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Political Management ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

The notion of ‘Europe’ is commonly associated with the European Union. This tendency reflects the importance of the EU on the international political arena. However, despite being such a power, the European Union is not always able to tackle all difficulties it faces, including the so-called ‘four deficiencies’: economic, political management,sense of security and ideology. The main question this paper has attempted to answer was the way the word ‘finite’ should be understood: as ‘without future’ or rather ‘perfect’.

scholarly journals “I would like to see that one is able to say I’m proud of being a citizen of the EU…” – the way Hungarian people see Europe and the European Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-135
Author(s):  
Borbála Göncz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Subject ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Emotional Approach ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

This paper explores the concepts of Europe, Europeanism and European Union, their meaning to Hungarians, how people define them and how they relate to these concepts through the analysis of qualitative in-depth interviews. The main question is whether the discourse, expressing attitudes towards Europe and the European Union, are of symbolic or utilitarian character. The symbolic way to relate to the EU is based on principles, an ideological or an emotional approach of the subject, while the pragmatic or utilitarian logic is based on rational cost-benefit analysis. The main argument of this current paper is that the way Hungarians tend to relate to the EU is rather utilitarian and it is the utilitarian logic that represents the relevant frame to understand people’s attitudes on the subject.

scholarly journals "Faith and Reason or Religion and Philosophy; The Problem of the Relationship between connection and separation from a Hermonitic Perspective": "الإيمان والعقل أو الدين والفلسفة؛ إشكالية العلاقة بين الاتصال والانفصال من منظور هيرمونيطيقي"

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil 'Abu Al-Abbas Zukair Bakry
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
One Pot ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evidence And Proof ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Religion, philosophy, Hermeneutics, reconcile, Arab, Western.             Many philosophers and thinkers when they offered to the issue of the relationship between religion and philosophy have fallen into mixing error; they put all religions in one pot, until it was described religion as in other religions, at the same time it was for each of them, thinkers and philosophers, its own concept for philosophy. Therefore, This study was represented in the main question: Is there Hermeneutics  problem between faith and reason, or between religion and philosophy still exists in contemporary thought? If the answer is in the affirmative, what is the way to solve them?         A historical analytical method was used to assess history of an idea, in addition to critical approach with regard to the idea that require critics. As for the search tools; mainly includes mental analysis of ideas and acceptance or rejection through evidence and proof mentality in both cases.

scholarly journals O pravnom poretku Petra I Petrovića Njegoša

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2/2020) ◽  
pp. 62-91
Author(s):  
Matija Stojanović
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
Original Interpretation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Way

A lot has been written about the legal order of Petar I Petrović Njegoš; this question has puzzled legal historians and theoreticians ever since the 19th century, the main question being, whether such an order ever came to be. The problem is not whether any legal norms at the time had been proclaimed, but rather whether these norms, once they were proclaimed, had ever been systematically implemented in a manner that would enable us to state that they formed a legal order. Therefore, this question includes two components – one regarding historical evidence, the other regarding the way this evidence can be valued within legal theory. This work will provide a critical examination of the historical timeline concerning this problem, and the way it has been treated in literature so far – providing the reader with an original interpretation of both.

Is the Way of the Humane Authority a Good Thing?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Shaoguang
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Moral Philosophers ◽  
The Way

This chapter criticizes the emphasis on privatization, the destruction of the Maoist-style emphasis on social welfare, and the growing gap between rich and poor. It argues that more needs to be done to combat the inequalities generated by capitalist modernization in China. Political legitimacy is not something to be defined by moral philosophers in total abstraction from the political reality. Rather, it is a matter of whether or not a political system faces a crisis of legitimacy depends on whether the people who live there doubt the rightness of its power, and whether they consider it the appropriate system for their country. The chapter ultimately endorses a definition of legitimacy as the legitimacy of the popular will.

Aristotle and the XΩΡΙΣΜΟΣ of Plato

1926 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Mabbott
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Law Of Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Concrete Universal ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
Constitutive Principles ◽  
The Way

‘All the difficulties in the theory of forms arise from their separation.’ This recurrent criticism of Aristotle's is, of course, one of the principal obstacles in the way of any reconstruction of the Platonic metaphysic. To begin with, it is flatly denied by Plato himself in the use of such words as μέθεξις, παρoυσία and κoινωνία. It must also be rejected by the orthodox account of the Forms which takes them to be immanent, constitutive principles in the world of everyday life, like a Law of Nature or the Concrete Universal of Hegel. Finally, modern philosophy has made it clear that this view of universals is right and necessary if thought and language are to exist, and it is therefore tempting to attribute it to Plato.

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