TY - JOUR AU - Nascimento, Daniel Simão PY - 2020/06/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Socrates, Vlastos, Scanlon and the Principle of the Sovereignty of Virtue JF - Revista Archai JA - Rev. Archai VL - IS - 30 SE - Articles DO - 10.14195/1984-249X_30_9 UR - https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/archai/article/view/25051 SP - e03009 AB - <p>This article offers a new formulation of the Socratic principle known as the Principle of the Sovereignty of Virtue (PSV). It is divided in three sections. In the first section I criticize Vlastos’ formulation of the PSV. In the second section I present the weighing model of practical deliberation, introduce the concepts of reason for action, simple reason, sufficient reason and conclusive reason that were offered by Thomas Scanlon in <em>Being realistic about reasons</em> (2014), and then I adapt these concepts so as to render them apt to be used in the formulation I intend to offer. In the third section I present my formulation of the PSV using the concepts introduced in the second section and explain why I believe this formulation is better than the one offered by Vlastos.</p> ER -