Plato on pleasure and the good life / Daniel C. Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Daniel C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Pleasure.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing aboutgoodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill o

Contents:

Introduction : pleasure and the good life

Goodness and the good life : the Euthydemus

Pleasure, virtue, and happiness in the Gorgias

Pleasure as a conditional good in the Phaedo

Pleasure and moral psychology in Republic IV and IX

The Philebus, part 1 : virtue, value, and 'likeness to God'

The Philebus, part 2 : pleasure transformed, or how the necessity of pleasure for happiness is consistent with the sufficiency of virtue for happiness

Pleasure, value, and moral psychology in the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus

Epilogue : pleasure and happiness in Plato's Protagoras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-255) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-922979-1

1-281-19858-7

9786611198589

0-19-153613-X

1-4356-2393-2

OCLC:

735626942