Pursuing the Good Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
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2007
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ISBN
9780748628117
Publisert
2007-11-21
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
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1 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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352
Biografisk notat
Douglas Cairns (FRSE, FBA, MAE) is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010) and Sophocles: Antigone (2016). His most recent edited volumes include A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity (2019), Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium (with M. Hinterberger, A. Pizzone and M. Zaccarini, 2022), Contempt, Ancient and Modern (2023), and In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece (with C. Virág, 2024). Fritz-Gregor Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales, Swansea. Terry Penner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This volume brings together contributions from leading Plato scholars from Britain, Europe and North America on a closely defined topic central to Plato’s thought and to Ancient Philosophy –Plato’s Form of the Good. The importance of the collection lies in the combination and presentation in one place of a range of different approaches to the good in Plato’s Republic, and different solutions to the problems posed and proposed by these approaches. The two central issues, which form an underlying thread throughout the collection, are: first whether Plato’s Republic is centred on what is good for individual humans, or on some quasi-moral good; and secondly, what the Form of the Good is.Pursuing the Good goes beyond recent studies in the field, and will appeal to classicists and philosophers alike. To the advanced student, it represents a wide-ranging introduction to central issues of Plato’s philosophy; for the academic it will provide stimulus through antithetical and controversial solutions to questions old and new.
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This volume combines articles on the ethics, epistemology and ontology of Plato and the influence of his thinking on Aristotle and beyond.
Preface; Introduction; 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of?: A Question about the Plot of the Republic; Terry Penner; 2. Glaucon's Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality; Lesley Brown; 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers; Antonio Chu; 4. Neutralism in Book 1 of the Republic; George Rudebusch; 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness, and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?; Terry Penner; 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato's Republic; Christopher Rowe; 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought; Richard Kraut; 8. Is Plato's Conception of the Form of the Good Contradictory?; Gerhard Seel; 9. The Good, Essences and Relations; Andrew Mason; 10. The Idea of the Good and the Other Forms in Plato's Republic; Fritz-Gregor Herrmann; 11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun-Analogy of the Republic; Vasilis Politis; 12. The Good and Mathematics; Christopher Gill; 13. The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy Between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics?; Rachana Kamtekar; 14. Inquiry and Justification in the Search for the Highest Good in Plato and Aristotle; Mariana Anagnostopoulos; 15. The Carpenter and the Good; Rachel Barney; 16. Conversion or Conversation?: A Note on Plato's Philosophical Methods; Timothy Chappell; Index.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780748628117
Publisert
2007-11-21
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
1 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352