Virtue and reason in Plato and Aristotle / A.W. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, A. W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Aristotle.

Virtue.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 356 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Price explores the views of Plato and Aristotle on how virtue of character and practical reasoning enable agents to achieve eudaimonia - the state of living or acting well. He provides a philosophical analysis and argues that the perennial question of action within human life is central to the reflections of ancient philosophers.

Contents:

Introduction

Plato on eudaimonia. Doing and living well ; The final end of action and desire

Aristotle on eudaimonia. Two conceptions of eudaimonia ; Eudaimonia and its components ; 'In a complete life' ; Some further questions ; Intellectual contemplation

Plato on virtue. The unity of virtue ; Virtue and emotion ; Desires and emotions in the Republic ; The Republic on the virtues

Aristotle on virtue. The emotions ; The virtues and the mean ; Making sense of the mean ; The unity of the virtues

Plato on practical reasoning. Practical inference in the Lysis and Gorgias ; Practical inference from the Gorgias to the Meno ; Means-end reasoning in the Republic ; Principles ; Measurement

Aristotle on practical reasoning. What is practical thinking? ; Practical thinking and action ; Against eudaimonia as a grand end ; Principles ; The ends of deliberation ; Deliberation and intuition ; Is deliberation of ends? ; Broadie and McDowell ; The practical syllogism ; Should practical inference be deductive?

Plato on acrasia. Acrasia in the Protagoras ; How plausible is the Protagoras? ; Acrasia in the Republic

Aristotle on acrasia. An Aristotelian account that is not Aristotle's ; Aristotle's account ; Two difficulties ; A consideration of alternatives ; Eudaimonia revisited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).

ISBN:

0-19-173184-6