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Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance: Comments on Buss
Author(s) -
Barney Rachel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12403
Subject(s) - socrates , cowardice , injustice , resistance (ecology) , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , law , political science , biology , ecology
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.