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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970439503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786611252168

9780748652488

0748652485

9781281252166

1281252166

9780748631889

0748631887

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

CairnsDouglas L

HerrmannFritz-Gregor

PennerTerry <1936->

Disciplina

320.07

Soggetti

Good and evil

Ethics, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected conference papers.

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.