The Socratic TurnThe Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in lifeafter he had rejected materialistic natural sciencethat he finally turned, around the age of forty, to the examination of ordinary moral and political opinions, or to