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Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic /

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 lea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cairns, Douglas L., Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor, Penner, Terry, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Series:Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Contributors and Editors; Introduction; 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of? A Question about the Plot of the Republic; 2. Glaucon's Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality; 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers; 4. Neutralism in Book I of the Republic; 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?; 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato's Republic; 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought.