Plato's Ethics
The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Plato's rejection of Socrates' instrumentalism is one of the key elements in the development of Plato's philosophical perspective. The book, which is structured in 20 chapters, is a dialogue by dialogue commentary, which discusses Plato's ethics in context of his metaphysics and epistemology
1 online resource (457 p.)
9781280654909, 9786610654901, 9780198024750, 9780585379395, 1280654902, 6610654905, 0198024754, 0585379394
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""Contents""; ""1. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues""; ""1. Preliminary""; ""2. Approaches to the Dialogues""; ""3. Aristotle and the Dialogues""; ""4. Why Dialogues?""; ""5. Aristotle and Socrates""; ""6. The Order of the Dialogues""; ""7. Plato's Attitude to Socrates""; ""8. Socrates in the History of Greek Ethics""; ""2. Socrates' Method""; ""9. Socratic Ignorance and Socratic Method""; ""10. Uses of the Elenchos""; ""11. Socrates' Constructive Method""; ""12. The Demand for an Account""; ""13. Accounts and Definitions""; ""14. Adequate Definitions""; ""15. Types of Definition"" ""16. Knowledge and Definition""""17. Difficulties about Socratic Ignorance""; ""18. Difficulties in Socratic Method""; ""3. Socrates' Arguments about the Virtues""; ""19. The Character of the Dialogues""; ""20. Common Beliefs""; ""21. Happiness""; ""22. Virtue""; ""23. Virtue and the Virtues""; ""24. Action, Character, and Virtue""; ""25. The Fine and the Good""; ""26. Temperance and Knowledge""; ""27. Bravery and Knowledge""; ""28. Temperance and the Unity of the Virtues""; ""29. Bravery and the Unity of the Virtues""; ""30. Justice and the Good of the Agent"" ""31. Justice and the Good of Others""""32. The Guiding Principles of Socratic Inquiry""; ""33. The Elenchos and the Search for Definitions""; ""34. Socrates' Treatment of Common Beliefs""; ""4. Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue""; ""35. The Importance of the Euthydemus""; ""36. Eudaemonism""; ""37. Why Eudaemonism?""; ""38. Happiness, Wisdom, and Fortune""; ""39. Wisdom and the Correct Use of Assets""; ""40. Wisdom as the Only Good""; ""41. The Sufficiency of Virtue for Happiness""; ""42. Use and Misuse of Knowledge""; ""43. Socrates' Defence of His Guiding Principles"" ""44. Questions about Socrates' Defence""""5. Difficulties for Socrates""; ""45. The Questions about Happiness""; ""46. Is Virtue Instrumental to Happiness?""; ""47. Is Virtue a Craft?""; ""48. Aristotle on Virtue and Craft""; ""49. Aristotle on Production and Action""; ""50. Virtues, Crafts, and Instrumental Means""; ""51. Why Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness?""; ""52. Virtue, Craft, and Non-Rational Desires""; ""53. Implications of an Instrumental View""; ""6. The Protagoras""; ""54. The Aims of the Dialogue""; ""55. Protagoras and Socrates on Virtue"" ""56. Preliminary Arguments for the Unity of the Virtues""""57. The Appeal to Hedonism""; ""58. The Denial of Incontinence""; ""59. The Last Argument for the Unity of the Virtues""; ""60. Questions about Socratic Hedonism""; ""61. Eudaemonism and Hedonism""; ""62. Advantages of Hedonism""; ""63. Hedonism and Instrumentalism""; ""64. Hedonism and the Virtues""; ""65. Socratic Method in the Protagoras""; ""7. The Argument of the Gorgias""; ""66. The Main Issues""; ""67. Objections to Rhetoric""; ""68. Rhetoric and Justice""; ""69. Power and Justice""; ""70. The Argument with Callicles""
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""71. Callicles' Moral Position""