Virtue, happiness, knowledge : themes from the work of gail fine and terence / edited by David O. Brink, Susan Sauve Meyer and Christopher Shields.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brink, David O., editor.

Meyer, Susan Sauvé, editor.

Shields, Christopher John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient--Historiography.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Fine, Gail.

Irwin, Terence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin in the history of philosophy. They discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond.

Contents:

Rethinking agreement in Plato / Lesley Brown

Plato's theory of knowledge / Ralph Wedgwood

Justice and persuasion in the Republic / Dominic Scott

Plato against democracy : a defense / Richard Kraut

Self-mastery and self-rule in Plato's Laws / Susan Sauvé Meyer

Plato's Philebus and the value of idle pleasure / Verity Harte

A series of goods / Christopher Shields

Practical truth : an interpretation of parts of NE VI / David Charles

Aristotelian feelings in the Rhetoric / Paula Gottlieb

'Ought' in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics / Julia Annas

Deliberation and decision in the Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics / Karen Margrethe Nielsen

The freedom required for moral responsibility / John Martin Fischer

Virtue : Aristotle and Kant / Allen W. Wood

Richard Price on virtue / Roger Crisp / Eudaimonism and cosmopolitan concern / David O. Brink.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-185879-X

0-19-254937-5