| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
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Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4 |
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Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4
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| Contents |
COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Contributors and Editors; Introduction; 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of? A Question about the Plot of the Republic; 2. Glaucon's Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality; 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers; 4. Neutralism in Book I of the Republic; 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?; 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato's Republic; 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought |
| Summary |
This volume, the fourth in the Edinburgh Leventis Studies series, comprises a selection of papers from the conference held in Edinburgh March 2005 in conjunction with Professor Terry Penner's tenure of the A.G. Leventis Visiting Research Chair in Greek. It 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 P |
| Analysis |
Good |
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Plato's republic |
| Notes |
Selected conference papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato -- Influence -- Congresses.
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Plato. Republic -- Congresses.
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Ethics, Ancient -- Congresses.
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Good and evil -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cairns, Douglas L.
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Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor.
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Penner, Terry, 1936-
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| ISBN |
0748631887 (electronic bk.) |
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1281252166 |
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9780748631889 (electronic bk.) |
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9781281252166 |
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