Pursuing the Good : : Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic /

Pursuing the Good : : Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic / / Terrence Penner, Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann.

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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 lea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Cairns, Douglas,
Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor,
Penner, Terrence,
MitwirkendeR:
Anagnostopoulos, Mariana,
Barney, Rachel,
Brown, Lesley,
Cairns, Douglas,
Chappell, Timothy,
Chu, Antonio,
Gill, Christopher,
Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor,
Kamtekar, Rachana,
Kraut, Richard,
Mason, Andrew S.,
Penner, Terry,
Politis, Vasilis,
Rowe, Christopher,
Rudebusch, George,
Seel, Gerhard,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • 8. Is Plato’s Conception of the Form of the Good Contradictory?
  • 9. The Good, Essences and Relations
  • 10. The Idea of the Good and the Other Forms in Plato’s Republic
  • 11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun Analogy of the Republic
  • 12. The Good and Mathematics
  • 13. The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy Between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics?
  • 14. Inquiry and Justification in the Search for the Highest Good in Plato and Aristotle
  • 15. The Carpenter and the Good
  • 16. Conversion or Conversation? A Note on Plato’s Philosophical Methods
  • Index

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