Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic
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Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic
（Edinburgh Leventis studies, 4）
Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together contributions from leading Plato scholars from Britain, Europe and North America on a closely defined topic central to Plato's thought and to Ancient Philosophy --Plato's Form of the Good. The importance of the collection lies in the combination and presentation in one place of a range of different approaches to the good in Plato's Republic, and different solutions to the problems posed and proposed by these approaches. The two central issues, which form an underlying thread throughout the collection, are: first whether Plato's Republic is centred on what is good for individual humans, or on some quasi-moral good; and secondly, what the Form of the Good is. Pursuing the Good goes beyond recent studies in the field, and will appeal to classicists and philosophers alike. To the advanced student, it represents a wide-ranging introduction to central issues of Plato's philosophy; for the academic it will provide stimulus through antithetical and controversial solutions to questions old and new.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of?: A Question about the Plot of the Republic
- Terry Penner
- 2. Glaucon's Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality
- Lesley Brown
- 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers
- Antonio Chu
- 4. Neutralism in Book 1 of the Republic
- George Rudebusch
- 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness, and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?
- Terry Penner
- 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato's Republic
- Christopher Rowe
- 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought
- Richard Kraut
- 8. Is Plato's Conception of the Form of the Good Contradictory?
- Gerhard Seel
- 9. The Good, Essences and Relations
- Andrew Mason
- 10. The Idea of the Good and the Other Forms in Plato's Republic
- Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
- 11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun-Analogy of the Republic
- Vasilis Politis
- 12. The Good and Mathematics
- Christopher Gill
- 13. The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy Between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics?
- Rachana Kamtekar
- 14. Inquiry and Justification in the Search for the Highest Good in Plato and Aristotle
- Mariana Anagnostopoulos
- 15. The Carpenter and the Good
- Rachel Barney
- 16. Conversion or Conversation?: A Note on Plato's Philosophical Methods
- Timothy Chappell
- Index.
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