Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate About Justice

Just Prospering? explores an important debate about the value of justice in Ancient Greece. Anderson begins with an analysis of the 5th Century BCE sophists and their novel philosophical debates about justice, before turning to Plato's Republic which, he argues, cannot be understood without attending to the sophistic dialogue.

List of contents

• Lists of Tables


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• I: The 5th Century Debate about Justice


• 1: The Traditional View of Justice


• 2: The 5th Century Challenge to Justice


• 3: The 5th Century Defence of Justice


• II: The Debate in Plato


• 4: Transition to Plato


• 5: A Challenge to Old and New


• 6: The Divisions of Good and the Defence of Justice


• 7: Further Sophistic Echoes


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• General Index


• Index Locorum

About the author

Merrick Anderson studied Philosophy and Political Theory at the University of Toronto and received his PhD in Classical Philosophy from Princeton University, before taking up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College London. In 2024, he moved to Los Angeles to become an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Philosophy. His research focuses on the moral philosophy of the Ancient Greek philosophers, especially the sophists and Plato, though he is broadly interested in the wider history of moral and political philosophy as well as certain topics in contemporary value theory.

Summary

Just Prospering? explores an important debate about the value of justice in Ancient Greece. Anderson begins with an analysis of the 5th Century BCE sophists and their novel philosophical debates about justice, before turning to Plato's Republic which, he argues, cannot be understood without attending to the sophistic dialogue.

Product details

• Authors: Merrick Anderson, Merrick (Assistant Professor of Philosop Anderson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9780197267660
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726766-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LAW / Jurisprudence, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law