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9780748628117: Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
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ISBN 10 : 0748628118 ISBN 13 : 9780748628117
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This volume, the fourth in the Edinburgh Leventis Studies series, comprises a selection of papers from the conference held in Edinburgh March 2005 in conjunction with Professor Terry Penner's tenure of the A. G. Leventis Visiting Research Chair in Greek.

It 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh Fritz-Gregor Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea Terrence Penner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0748628118
ISBN 13 
9780748628117
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
352
Éditeur
Cairns Douglas, Herrmann Fritz-Gregor, Penner Terrence
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