| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 436 pages) |
| Contents |
Plato, Socrates, and the dialogues -- Socrates' method -- Socrates' arguments about the virtues -- Socrates : from happiness to virtue -- Difficulties for Socrates -- The protagoras -- The argument of the Gorgias -- Implications of the Gorgias -- Socratic method and Socratic ethics : the Meno -- The theort of forms -- Republic I -- Republic II : objections to justice -- Republic IV : the division of the soul -- Republic IV : the virtues -- Republic IV : justice and happiness -- Republic V-VII -- Republic VIII-IX on justice -- Platonic love -- Pleasure, intelligence, and the good -- Reason and virtue |
| Summary |
The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Plato's rejection of Socrates' instrumentalism is one of the key elements in the development of Plato's philosophical perspective. The book, which is structured in 20 chapters, is a dialogue by dialogue commentary, which discusses Plato's ethics in context of his metaphysics and epistemology |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
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Greece |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-405) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato -- Ethics
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Plato. |
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Plato. |
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Platon. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Ethics.
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Ethiek.
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Platonismo.
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Ética.
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Éthique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585379394 |
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9780585379395 |
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0195086449 |
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9780195086447 |
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0195086457 |
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9780195086454 |
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9780199833306 |
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0199833303 |
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