Platonic Ethics, Old and New / / Julia Annas.

Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics-and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; 57
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION: DISCOVERING A TRADITION
  • [I] MANY VOICES: DIALOGUE AND DEVELOPMENT IN PLATO
  • [II] TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE: VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS
  • [III] BECOMING LIKE GOD: ETHICS, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE DIVINE
  • [IV] BECOMING LIKE GOD: ETHICS, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE DIVINE
  • [V] WHAT USE IS THE FORM OF THE GOOD? ETHICS AND METAPHYSICS IN PLATO
  • [VI] HUMANS AND BEASTS: MORAL THEORY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • [VII] ELEMENTAL PLEASURES: ENJOYMENT AND THE GOOD IN PLATO
  • APPENDIX: HEDONISM IN THE PROTAGORAS
  • CAST OF CHARACTERS
  • EDITIONS USED
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX LOCORUM
  • INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS