Plato 2 Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul

by Fine, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780198752042
• ISBN10: 0198752040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(33)
Gail Fine
Socrates and Democracy	34	(22)
Richard Kraut
Socratic Piety	56	(22)
Gregory Vlastos
The Unity of Virtue	78	(27)
Terry Penner
Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory	105	(32)
Gregory Vlastos
The Individual as an Object of Love in Plato	137	(27)
Gregory Vlastos
Republic 2: Questions about Justice	164	(22)
T. H. Irwin
Plato's Theory of Human Motivation	186	(21)
John M. Cooper
Plato's Defence of Justice	207	(28)
Norman O. Dahl
Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521	235	(20)
Richard Kraut
The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic	255	(10)
Bernard Williams
Plato's Republic and Feminism	265	(15)
Julia Annas
Plato's Totalitarianism	280	(17)
C. C. W. Taylor
Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City	297	(12)
M. F. Burnyeat
The Ideal of Godlikeness	309	(20)
David Sedley
Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus	329	(16)
John M. Cooper
Rumpelstiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus	345	(28)
Dorothea Frede
Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws	373	(31)
Christopher Bobonich
The Soul and Immortality in Plato's Phaedo	404	(21)
David Bostock
Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus	425	(26)
Richard Bett
Notes on the Contributors	451	(2)
Selected Bibliography	453	(10)
Index of Names	463