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Rational spirituality and divine virtue in Plato : a modern interpretation and philosophical defense of Platonism /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; Platonist Spirituality versus "Platonist Metaphysics"; Rational Foundations; Ethical Realism; What Is Philosophy?; Chapter Outline; Chapter One: Overview; Socrates's Search for Truth about Virtue; Existential Questions: What Finally Matters; Plato's Two Worlds; Philosophy as a Way of Life; Individualist Platonism and Critical Reconstruction; Virtue-Models, not Rules for Conduct; Platonism as a Difficult Way of Life; How Can We Get "Over There" from "Here"?; Does Perfect Courage Exist?; Individualist Reasoning and the Midwife Principle
- Asking the Right QuestionAn Illustration: Socratic Discussion of Courage in the Laches; A Basic Problem; A Socratic Discussion of Rightness; Method in Inductive Socratic Reasoning.; Some Practical Examples; Disillusionment in Love; Disillusionment with Heroes; Disillusionment with Conventional Morality; Moral Skepticism Due to Focusing on Moral Dilemmas; Skepticism about Moral Rules; Chapter Two: The Objectivity of the Good; The Problem; The Life-World versus the Science-World; Two Tables and Two Worlds; Practical Significance and the Objectivity of Funniness; Significance in the Life-World
- The Priority of the Significance-Filled Life-WorldSoft Objectivity and Ethical Deserving; Ethical Interest and the Metaphor of "Perspective"; The Context of Philosophizing, Ancient and Modern; George Edward Moore and Analytic Philosophy; Transcendental Philosophy; Platonism with a Pragmatist Foundation; Disagreements with Rorty; Chapter Three: Limits; A Modern Textbook Summary of "Plato's Doctrines"; Plato on What Is "Real"; Critical Reconstruction on a Pragmatist Basis; Platonic Forms as Separately Existing Entities; Platonic Forms as Timeless and Eternal Universal Truths; Critical Pluralism
- Plato's Form-Theory as a Purely Formal TheoryAppendix: A Socratic Perspective on the Causes of Ethical Diversity; Chapter Four: Elaborations; Virtue-Centered versus Behavior-Centered Ethics; Reason, Virtue, and Behavior; Cultivating Virtue; "Admirable"; Plato's Otherworldly "Worldview"; Worldviews without Relativism; The Platonist Worldview-Some Details; The Platonism of Iris Murdoch; Chapter Five: Rules of Socratic Method; Summary Review; The Positive Function of Ethical Perceptions in Clear Concrete Cases; The Negative Use of Immediate Ethical Perceptions as Counterexamples
- The Four and The FifthChapter Six: Text and Commentary (1); An Initial Summary; Plato's Interest in "Contradictory" Sense-Impressions; Parallels between Ethical Perceptions and Perceptions without Ethical Content; A Dialogue Concerning Aisthe ̄sis, ; and the Puzzling Finger; Wisdom-Lovers, Sight-Lovers, and Doxa-Lovers; Appendix: On the Meaning of Doxa; Chapter Seven: Text and Commentary (2); The True Philosopher and the Otherworldly "Being" of Platonic Virtue-Forms; The Allegory of the Cave; Plato's Ladder in the Symposium; Chapter Eight: Implications and Examples