Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul / Edition 1

by Gail Fine

Overview

This series aims to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198752042
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	01/28/2000
Series:	Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (1993), and co-editor of Aristotle: Selections (1995) and Aristotle: Introductory Readings (1996).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Socrates and Democracy, Richard Kraut
2. Socratic Piety, Gregory Vlastos
3. The Unity of Virtue, Terry Penner
4. Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory, Gregory Vlastos
5. The Individual as Object of Love in Plato, Gregory Vlastos
6. Republic II: Objections to Justice, T. H. Irwin
7. Plato's Theory of Human Motivation, John M. Cooper
8. Plato's Defense of Justice, Norman O. Dahl
9. Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521, Richard Kraut
10. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic, Bernard Williams
11. Plato's Republic and Feminism, Julia Annas
12. Plato's Totalitarianism, C. C. W. Taylor
13. Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City, M. F. Burnyeat
14. The Idea of Godlikeness, David Sedley
15. Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus, John M. Cooper
16. Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus, Dorothea Frede
17. Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws, Christopher Bobonich
18. The Soul and Immortality, David Bostock
19. Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus, Richard Bett
Notes on the Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names