Plato on virtue and the law / Sandrine Berges |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
Disciplina | 179/.9092 |
Collana | Continuum studies in ancient philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Virtue Law |
ISBN |
1-4725-9795-8
1-282-87326-1 9786612873263 1-4411-1719-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics -- 1. Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics -- 2.Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics -- 3.What is Virtue Jurisprudence? -- Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The incompatibility problem introduced. -- 3. Unconditional Obedience. -- 4. Agreement. -- 5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy. -- 6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience. -- -- Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates -- 3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic -- 4. The Argument in the Menexenus -- 5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic. -- Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues -- 1.The Model of Psychic Health in Plato. -- 2.How the model works: elenchos as therapy. -- 3.Virtue and the situationists. -- 4.Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study. -- Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic -- 1.A problem and a solution? -- 2.Paternalism in the Republic -- 3.Educating the philosopher kings and the rest. -- 4.Paternalism in education. -- 5.Conclusion. -- Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman. -- 3.The anti-democratic reading of the second claim. -- 4.Equity. -- 5.An objection. -- 6.Making way for the Laws. -- -- Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Preambles. -- 3.The two audiences for the preambles. -- 4.Are the preambles paternalistic? -- 5.Persuading the Laws. -- Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions -- 1.A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions. -- 2.Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting? -- 3.Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically? -- 4. Two examples: racism and sexism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458803703321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Plato on virtue and the law / Sandrine Berges |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
Disciplina | 179/.9092 |
Collana | Continuum studies in ancient philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Virtue Law |
ISBN |
1-4725-9795-8
1-282-87326-1 9786612873263 1-4411-1719-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics -- 1. Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics -- 2.Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics -- 3.What is Virtue Jurisprudence? -- Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The incompatibility problem introduced. -- 3. Unconditional Obedience. -- 4. Agreement. -- 5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy. -- 6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience. -- -- Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates -- 3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic -- 4. The Argument in the Menexenus -- 5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic. -- Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues -- 1.The Model of Psychic Health in Plato. -- 2.How the model works: elenchos as therapy. -- 3.Virtue and the situationists. -- 4.Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study. -- Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic -- 1.A problem and a solution? -- 2.Paternalism in the Republic -- 3.Educating the philosopher kings and the rest. -- 4.Paternalism in education. -- 5.Conclusion. -- Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman. -- 3.The anti-democratic reading of the second claim. -- 4.Equity. -- 5.An objection. -- 6.Making way for the Laws. -- -- Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Preambles. -- 3.The two audiences for the preambles. -- 4.Are the preambles paternalistic? -- 5.Persuading the Laws. -- Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions -- 1.A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions. -- 2.Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting? -- 3.Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically? -- 4. Two examples: racism and sexism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785357903321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Plato on virtue and the law / / Sandrine Berges |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
Disciplina | 179/.9092 |
Collana | Continuum studies in ancient philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Virtue Law |
ISBN |
1-4725-9795-8
1-282-87326-1 9786612873263 1-4411-1719-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics -- 1. Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics -- 2.Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics -- 3.What is Virtue Jurisprudence? -- Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The incompatibility problem introduced. -- 3. Unconditional Obedience. -- 4. Agreement. -- 5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy. -- 6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience. -- -- Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates -- 3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic -- 4. The Argument in the Menexenus -- 5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic. -- Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues -- 1.The Model of Psychic Health in Plato. -- 2.How the model works: elenchos as therapy. -- 3.Virtue and the situationists. -- 4.Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study. -- Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic -- 1.A problem and a solution? -- 2.Paternalism in the Republic -- 3.Educating the philosopher kings and the rest. -- 4.Paternalism in education. -- 5.Conclusion. -- Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman. -- 3.The anti-democratic reading of the second claim. -- 4.Equity. -- 5.An objection. -- 6.Making way for the Laws. -- -- Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens -- 1.Introduction. -- 2.Preambles. -- 3.The two audiences for the preambles. -- 4.Are the preambles paternalistic? -- 5.Persuading the Laws. -- Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions -- 1.A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions. -- 2.Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting? -- 3.Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically? -- 4. Two examples: racism and sexism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819762703321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463018003321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786273003321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824376903321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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