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Zusatztext The articles are all reader-friendly, following the editors aim of an open and discussion-orientated style...The writers assume an interest in their readers and, without patronising, they generally engage it. Thus, the difficult becomes not a barrier but a challenge. The collection, through its scope and quality, will be a standard for some time to come. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy looks at central areas in Plato's philosophy: ethics, politics, religion, and the soul. It includes essays on virtue, knowledge, and happiness; justice and happiness; pleasure; Platonic love; feminism; the ideally just state, democracy and totalitarianism; and the nature of the soul and moral motivation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Richard Kraut: Socrates and Democracy 2: Gregory Vlastos: Socratic Piety 3: Terry Penner: The Unity of Virtue 4: Gregory Vlastos: Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory 5: Gregory Vlastos: The Individual as Object of Love in Plato 6: T. H. Irwin: Republic II: Objections to Justice 7: John M. Cooper: Plato's Theory of Human Motivation 8: Norman O. Dahl: Plato's Defense of Justice 9: Richard Kraut: Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521 10: Bernard Williams: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic 11: Julia Annas: Plato's Republic and Feminism 12: C. C. W. Taylor: Plato's Totalitarianism 13: M. F. Burnyeat: Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City 14: David Sedley: The Idea of Godlikeness 15: John M. Cooper: Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus 16: Dorothea Frede: Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus 17: Christopher Bobonich: Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws 18: David Bostock: The Soul and Immortality 19: Richard Bett: Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus Notes on the Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names ...
