Plato's ethics / Terence Irwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irwin, Terence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Ethics.

Plato.

Ethics, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 436 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028215-0

1-280-65490-2

9786610654901

0-19-802475-4

0-585-37939-4

OCLC:

922952852