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Isocrates, Thucydides, and the Relationship between Rhetoric and Knowledge

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

Challenges of Naturalism and Empiricism in Morality

Exploring the difficulties faced by naturalists and empiricists in supporting morality, including distinguishing between arbitrary and non-arbitrary moral claims, determining the goodness of nature, and the contradictions that arise from different aspects suggesting different morals, leading to a level of nihilism in democratic societies.

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