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Title Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic / edited by Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and Terry Penner.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4
Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 4.
Note Selected conference papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 P.
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Subject Plato. Republic -- Congresses.
Plato -- Influence -- Congresses.
Plato.
Plato -- Congresses.
Plato -- Congresses -- Influence.
Republic (Plato)
Good and evil -- Congresses.
Good and evil.
Ethics, Ancient -- Congresses.
Ethics, Ancient.
Indexed Term Plato's republic
Good
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Cairns, Douglas L.
Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor.
Penner, Terry, 1936-
Other Form: Print version: Pursuing the good. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 9780748628117 0748628118 (OCoLC)154711327
ISBN 9780748631889 (electronic book)
0748631887 (electronic book)
1281252166
9781281252166
9780748628117
0748628118