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Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic / edited by Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and Terry Penner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cairns, Douglas, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4.
- Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Republic--Congresses.
- Plato.
- Plato--Influence--Congresses.
- Good and evil--Congresses.
- Good and evil.
- Ethics, Ancient--Congresses.
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume combines articles on the ethics epistemology and ontology of Plato and the influence of his thinking on Aristotle and beyond.
- Contents:
- What is the form of the good the form of? a question about the plot of the Republic / Terry Penner
- Glaucon's challenge, rational egoism and ordinary morality / Lesley Brown
- Thrasymachean rulers, altruistic rulers and Socratic rulers / Antonio Chu
- Neutralism in Book I of the Republic / George Rudebusch
- The good, advantage, happiness and the form of the good : how continuous with Socratic ethics is Platonic ethics? / Terry Penner
- The form of the good and the good in Plato's Republic / Christopher Rowe
- Flourishing : the central concept of practical though / Richard Kraut
- Is Plato's conception of the form of the good contradictory? / Gerhard Seel
- The good, essences and relations / Andrew S. Mason
- The idea of the good and the other forms in Plato's Republic / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
- The aporia in the charmides about reflexive knowledge and the contribution to its solution in the sun analogy of the Republic / Vasilis Politis
- The good and mathematics / Christopher Gill
- The good and order : does the Republic display an analogy between a science of ethics and mathematics? / Rachana Kamtekar
- Inquiry and justification in the search for the highest good in Plato and Aristotle / Mariana Anagnostopoulos
- The carpenter and the good / Rachel Barney
- Conversion or conversation : a note on Plato's philosophical methods / Timothy Chappell.
- Notes:
- Selected conference papers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611252168
- 9780748652488
- 0748652485
- 9781281252166
- 1281252166
- 9780748631889
- 0748631887
- OCLC:
- 476145020
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