Virtue and law in Plato and beyond / Julia Annas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Annas, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Laws.

Plato.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Philo, of Alexandria.

Philo.

Virtue.

Law (Philosophical concept).

Ethics.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 234 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally thought), Plato is in both dialogues concerned with the relation of virtue to law, and obedience to law, and presents, in the Laws, a more careful and sophisticated account of that relation. His approach in the Laws differs from his earlier one, because he now tries to build from the political cultures of actual societies (and their histories) instead of producing a theoretical thought-experiment.

Contents:

Introduction

Law in the Republic

Changing from within : Plato's new approach in the Laws

Virtue in a framework of law

Law and the divine

Citizen virtue

Cicero on natural law and ideal laws

Philo on virtue and the laws of Moses

Bringing things together.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-181689-2