Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Law in the Republic


• 3: Changing from Within: Plato's New Approach in the Laws


• 4: Virtue in a Framework of Law


• 5: Law and the Divine


• 6: Citizen Virtue


• 7: Cicero on Natural Law and Ideal Laws


• 8: Philo on Virtue and the Laws of Moses


• 9: Bringing Things Together

About the author

Julia Annas has taught at the University of Arizona since 1986. Before that she taught at the University of Oxford (St Hugh's College) and she has also taught at Columbia University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC and President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association 2004-5, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. Annas has written a number of books and articles over a wide range of ancient philosophy, from Plato to the Hellenistic period, including An Introduction to Plato's Republic (1981), The Morality of Happiness (1993), and Platonic Ethics Old and New (1999). She is now working on virtue and law in ancient thought.

Summary

Julia Annas explores how Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law developed, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. She shows that, rather than rejecting the account given in his Republic, Plato develops in the Laws a more careful and sophisticated version of that account.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Annas, Julia (Regents Professor of Philosophy Annas, Annas Julia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198851004
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885100-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500