Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic / / edited by Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and Terry Penner [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452292403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 0-7486-5248-5; 1-281-25216-6; 9786611252168; 0-7486-3188-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Edinburgh Leventis studies ; ; 4
• Disciplina: 320.07
• Soggetti: Good and evil; Ethics, Ancient
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What is the form of the good the form of? a question about the plot of the Republic / Terry Penner -- Glaucon's challenge, rational egoism and ordinary morality / Lesley Brown -- Thrasymachean rulers, altruistic rulers and Socratic rulers / Antonio Chu -- Neutralism in Book I of the Republic / George Rudebusch -- The good, advantage, happiness and the form of the good : how continuous with Socratic ethics is Platonic ethics? / Terry Penner -- The form of the good and the good in Plato's Republic / Christopher Rowe -- Flourishing : the central concept of practical though / Richard Kraut -- Is Plato's conception of the form of the good contradictory? / Gerhard Seel -- The good, essences and relations / Andrew S. Mason -- The idea of the good and the other forms in Plato's Republic / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann -- The aporia in the charmides about reflexive knowledge and the contribution to its solution in the sun analogy of the Republic / Vasilis Politis -- The good and mathematics / Christopher Gill -- The good and order : does the Republic display an analogy between a science of ethics and mathematics? / Rachana Kamtekar -- Inquiry and justification in the search for the highest good in Plato and Aristotle / ; Mariana Anagnostopoulos -- The carpenter and the good / Rachel Barney -- Conversion or conversation : a note on Plato's philosophical methods / Timothy Chappell.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume combines articles on the ethics epistemology and ontology of Plato and the influence of his thinking on Aristotle and beyond.