Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle

Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Plato's Republic


• Introduction to Part I: Three Levels of Argument


• 1: The Longer Route


• 2: The Middle Route


• 3: The Shorter Route


• 4: The Role of Education


• 5: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Timocracy and Oligarchy


• 6: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Democracy and Tyranny


• Interim Conclusions


• Part II: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics


• Introduction to Part II: the Target Audience of the Nicomachean Ethics


• 7: The Functions of the Nicomachean Ethics


• 8: Aristotle and Moral Scepticism


• 9: The Young


• 10: Further Exclusions


• 11: Women and Moral Argument


• 12: The Roles of Music and Habituation


• Conclusion

About the author

Dominic Scott is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, having worked as a lecturer at Cambridge University and then a professor at the University of Virginia. He has also held visiting positions at Princeton, Harvard, and the Center for Hellenic Studies Washington DC. In 2001-3 he was a British Academy Research Reader and in 2016 a Humboldt Fellow based in Munich. He has written three monographs on ancient philosophy and edited two further books, as well as co-authoring The Humanities World Report 2015.

Summary

Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this.

Additional text

...a valuable contribution to the literature.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Scott, Dominic (Professor of Philosophy Scott, Scott Dominic
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2020
• EAN: 9780198863328
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886332-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500