Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, & Aristotelian Principles (2nd Edn)

Kreeft, Peter and Dougherty, T (ed)

ISBN 10: 1587318008 / ISBN 13: 9781587318009

Published by St Augustine Pr Inc, 2005

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. With owner's name inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9781587318009.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, & Aristotelian Principles (2nd Edn)
• Publisher: St Augustine Pr Inc
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587318008
• ISBN 13: 9781587318009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Poor
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

There are hundreds of logic tests in print, but none like this one.

(1) This is the only complete system of classical Aristotelian logic in print. The "old logic" is still the natural logic of the four language arts (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). Symbolic, or "mathematical," logic may be superior to classical "ordinary-language" Aristotelian logic for the sciences, but not for the humanities, and is more sophisticated theoretically but not more useful practically. (How often have you heard non-philosophers argue in symbolic logic?)

(2) This book is simple and user-friendly. It is highly interactive, with a plethora of exercises and a light, engaging style. Most beginners need a "back to basics" logic text rather than the latest overpriced one with state-of-the-art "bells and whistles" that they will never use outside class.

(3) It is practical. It is designed for do-it-yourselfers as well as classrooms. It emphasizes topics in proportion to probable student use: e.g., interpreting ordinary language, not only analyzing but also constructing effective arguments, smoking out hidden assumptions, making "argument maps," and using Socratic method in various circumstances. It is divided into eighty-eight mini-chapters for maximum mix-and-match flexibility.

(4) It is also philosophical. Its exercises expose students to many classical quotations, and additional chapters introduce philosophical issues in a Socratic manner and from a common-sense, realistic point of view. It prepares students for reading Great Books rather than Dick and Jane, and models Socrates as the beginner's ideal teacher and philosopher.

About the Author

Peter Kreeft is the author of over 40 books, including A Refutation of Moral Relativism, Summa of the Summa, Christianity for Modern Pagans: A Commentary on Pascal's Penseés, andC.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium.