Plato on Virtue and the Law

by Berges, Sandrine

• ISBN13: 9781441111500
• ISBN10: 1441111506
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Ancient philosophy is no longer an isolated discipline. Recent years have seen the development of a dialogue between ancient and contemporary philosophers writing on central issues in moral and political philosophy. The renewed interest in character and virtue as ethical concepts is one such issue, yet Plato's contribution has been largely neglected in contemporary virtue ethics. In Plato on Virtue and the Law, Sandrine Berges seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring the contribution that virtue ethics make to the understanding of laws alongside the interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns evident in Plato's dialogues. The book argues that a distinctive virtue theory of law is clearly presented in Plato's political dialogues. Through a new reading of the Crito, Menexenus, Gorgias, Republic, Statesman and Laws, Berges shows how Plato proposes several ways in which we can understand the law from the perspective of virtue ethics. >

Table of Contents

<p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>1.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>2.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>3.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>What is Virtue Jurisprudence?</span> <br/><br/><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the <u>Crito</u></strong></span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><br/>1. Introduction</span> <br/>2. <span lang=EN-US>The incompatibility problem introduced.</span> <br/><span lang=TR><span>3. Unconditional Obedience.</span> <br/><span lang=TR>4. Agreement.</span> <br/><span lang=TR>5. <span>The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy.</span> <br/><span lang=TR>6. The </span><span lang=TR>Crito<span>, the </span>Apology<span>, and Civil Disobedience. </span><br/><p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Three: <span> </span>Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US>1. Introduction</span> </div><br/><div><span lang=EN-US>2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates</span> </div><br/><div><span lang=EN-US>3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic</span> </div><br/><div><span lang=EN-US>4. The Argument in the Menexenus</span> <br/><div><span lang=EN-US>5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic.</span> </div></div><br/><p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>1.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>The Model of Psychic Health in Plato.</span> <br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>2.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>How the model works: elenchos as therapy.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>3.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Virtue and the situationists.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>4.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study.</span> <br/><p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>1.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>A problem and a solution?</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>2.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Paternalism in the Republic</span> <br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>3.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Educating the philosopher kings and the rest.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>4.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Paternalism in education.</span> <br/>5<span lang=EN-US><span>.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Conclusion.</span> <br/><p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>1.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Introduction.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>2.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>3.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>The anti-democratic reading of the second claim.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>4.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Equity.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span>5.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>An objection. <br/>6</span><span lang=EN-US><span>.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN--US>Making way for the Laws.</span> <br/><p><span lang=EN-US><strong>Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens</strong></span> </p><br/><div><span lang=EN-US><span>1.<span>      </span></span><span lang=EN-US>Introduction.</span> <br/><span lang=EN-US><span&a

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