Plato's utopia recast : his later ethics and politics / Christopher Bobonich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bobonich, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Contributions in political science.

Plato.

Plato--Ethics.

Plato. Laws.

Plato. Phaedo.

Plato. Republic.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 643 pages)

Other Title:

His later ethics and politics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws o

Contents:

Contents; 1 Philosophers and Non-philosophers in the Phaedo and the Republic; 2 Virtue, Goods, and Happiness in the Laws; 3 Parts of the Soul and the Psychology of Virtue; 4 Parts of the Soul and Non-rational Motivations; 5 The Citizens of Magnesia; Notes; References; Index of Passages; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [586]-612) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-927410-X

1-281-93047-4

9786611930479

0-19-153073-5

OCLC:

302365358