| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Outline of the Book -- Part One Plato's Republic -- Introduction to Part I Three Levels of Argument -- 1: The Longer Route -- 1. Conflicting Signals -- 2. The Influence of the Non-rational Parts -- 3. The Role of Mathematics -- 4. Natural Philosophers -- 2: The Middle Route -- 1. The Evidence of 493e2-494a4 -- 2. The Conversation with Glaucon: The Lovers of Sights and Sounds -- 3. The Conversation with Adeimantus: Convincing 'the Many' |
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4. The Value of Following the Middle Route -- 3: The Shorter Route -- 1. The Case for Pessimism -- (a) The Interplay of the Characters -- (b) Considerations from Moral Psychology -- (c) The Role of Education -- (d) Reasons for Caution -- 2. The Case for Qualified Optimism -- (a) The Evidence of Book IX (588b1-592b5) -- (b) A Parallel in Book VI -- 3. Concluding Aporia -- 4: The Role of Education -- Introduction -- 1. Exposure to Beauty in Rep. III 400c8-402c9 -- (a) Beauty and Reason (400c8-402a6) -- (b) The Reading Analogy (402a7-c8) -- (c) Implications |
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2. The Effects of Mimetic Poetry in Rep. X -- 3. Further Exclusions -- (a) The Balance between Music and Gymnastics (III 410b5-412a7) -- (b) Premature Dialectic (VII 537e1-539d7) -- Conclusion -- 5: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Timocracy and Oligarchy -- Introduction -- 1. The Timocrat (548d6-550c3) -- (a) The Nature and Development of the Timocrat -- (b) How Common is the Timocrat? -- 2. The Oligarch (553a3-555b3) -- (a) Reason and the Oligarchic Character -- (b) The Rarity of the Oligarch -- 6: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Democracy and Tyranny -- The Democrat (558c6-562a3) |
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(A) The Junior Democrat -- (b) The Senior Democrat -- (c) The Democratic Character Reconsidered in Book IX -- (d) How Common is the Democrat? -- 2. The Tyrant (571a1-580a8) -- (a) Madness and the Tyrant -- (b) The Tyrant's Regret -- (c) The Rarity of the Tyrant -- Conclusion -- Interim Conclusions -- 1. Platonic Pessimism Revisited -- 2. The Ideal State -- Part Two Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- Introduction to Part II: The Target Audience of the NE -- 1. The Subject Matter of the NE -- 2. The NE as Political Science -- 3. The Audience -- 4. Upbringing -- 5. Aristotle's Exclusions |
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6. The Relation between the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics -- 7: The Functions of the Nicomachean Ethics -- 1. Clarification, Conversion, and Reinforcement -- 2. The Discussion of Pleasure in NE X -- (a) Protreptic Intent in NE X 1 -- (b) Protreptic Arguments in NE X 5-6 -- 3. Self-love in NE IX 4 -- 8: Aristotle and Moral Scepticism -- 1. The Function Argument and the Doctrine of the Mean -- (a) The Function Argument of Rep. I -- (b) The Function Argument in NE I 7 -- (c) NE I 13 -- (d) The Doctrine of the Mean in NE II 6 -- (e) Aristotle's Intentions -- 2. Moral Scepticism and the Politics |
| Summary |
Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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9: The Young |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192608468 |
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0192608460 |
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