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:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/13/2000
Series:	Oxford Readings in Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	492
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

Introduction1. Socrates and Democracy, Richard Kraut2. Socratic Piety, Gregory Vlastos3. The Unity of Virtue, Terry Penner4. Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory, Gregory Vlastos5. The Individual as Object of Love in Plato, Gregory Vlastos6. Republic II: Objections to Justice, T. H. Irwin7. Plato's Theory of Human Motivation, John M. Cooper8. Plato's Defense of Justice, Norman O. Dahl9. Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521, Richard Kraut10. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic, Bernard Williams11. Plato's Republic and Feminism, Julia Annas12. Plato's Totalitarianism, C. C. W. Taylor13. Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City, M. F. Burnyeat14. The Idea of Godlikeness, David Sedley15. Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus, John M. Cooper16. Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus, Dorothea Frede17. Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws, Christopher Bobonich18. The Soul and Immortality, David Bostock19. Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus, Richard BettNotes on the Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names