Plato 2

Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-875204-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fine, Gail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Richard Kraut: Socrates and Democracy

- 2: Gregory Vlastos: Socratic Piety

- 3: Terry Penner: The Unity of Virtue

- 4: Gregory Vlastos: Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory

- 5: Gregory Vlastos: The Individual as Object of Love in Plato

- 6: T. H. Irwin: Republic II: Objections to Justice

- 7: John M. Cooper: Plato's Theory of Human Motivation

- 8: Norman O. Dahl: Plato's Defense of Justice

- 9: Richard Kraut: Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521

- 10: Bernard Williams: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic

- 11: Julia Annas: Plato's Republic and Feminism

- 12: C. C. W. Taylor: Plato's Totalitarianism

- 13: M. F. Burnyeat: Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City

- 14: David Sedley: The Idea of Godlikeness

- 15: John M. Cooper: Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus

- 16: Dorothea Frede: Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus

- 17: Christopher Bobonich: Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws

- 18: David Bostock: The Soul and Immortality

- 19: Richard Bett: Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus

- Notes on the Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (1993), and co-editor of Aristotle: Selections (1995) and Aristotle: Introductory Readings (1996).