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050 4 _aB398.E8A56 1998
072 7 _aPHI005000
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082 0 4 _a170/.92
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAnnas, Julia
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPlatonic Ethics, Old and New /
_cJulia Annas.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
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490 0 _aCornell Studies in Classical Philology ;
_v57
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPREFACE --
_tINTRODUCTION: DISCOVERING A TRADITION --
_t[I] MANY VOICES: DIALOGUE AND DEVELOPMENT IN PLATO --
_t[II] TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE: VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS --
_t[III] BECOMING LIKE GOD: ETHICS, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE DIVINE --
_t[IV] BECOMING LIKE GOD: ETHICS, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE DIVINE --
_t[V] WHAT USE IS THE FORM OF THE GOOD? ETHICS AND METAPHYSICS IN PLATO --
_t[VI] HUMANS AND BEASTS: MORAL THEORY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY --
_t[VII] ELEMENTAL PLEASURES: ENJOYMENT AND THE GOOD IN PLATO --
_tAPPENDIX: HEDONISM IN THE PROTAGORAS --
_tCAST OF CHARACTERS --
_tEDITIONS USED --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX LOCORUM --
_tINDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
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520 _aThe Townsend LecturesJulia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEthics, Ancient.
650 0 _aPlatonists.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801466977
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