| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cornell studies in classical philology ;
volume 57. The Townsend lectures
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Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 57.
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Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 ethics - and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato -- Ethics.
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Πλάτων, -- Ηθική.
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Plato. |
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Ethics. |
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Plato -- Ethics. |
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Πλάτων, 427-347 π.Χ -- Ηθική. |
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Platonists.
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Platonists. |
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Ethics, Ancient.
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Ethics, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Annas, Julia. Platonic ethics, old and new 0801485177 (DLC) 98030418 (OCoLC)39659720 |
| ISBN |
9780801466977 (electronic book) |
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0801466970 (electronic book) |
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0801485177 |
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9780801485176 |
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0801435188 |
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9780801435188 |
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