Platonic Ethics, Old and New /

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"Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Annas, Julia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plato.
Flaemmings, Friederich
Platon > Morale.
Plato > Ethics.
Receptie.
Platonisme.
Ethiek.
Ethik
Platonismus
Platonists.
Ethics, Ancient.
Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Platonism.
Morale ancienne.
Platoniciens.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: discovering a tradition
  • I. Many voices: dialogue and development in Plato
  • II. Transforming your life: virtue and happiness
  • III. Becoming like God: ethics, human nature, and the divine
  • IV. The inner city: ethics without politics in the Republic
  • V. What use is the form of the good? Ethics and metaphysics in Plato
  • VI. Humans and beasts: moral theory and moral psychology
  • VII. Elemental pleasures: enjoyment and the good in Plato
  • App. Hedonism in the Protagoras.

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