Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Plato on Virtue and the Law: Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Autor Sandrine Bergès
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2011
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 25418 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 2 noi 2011 25418 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 94529 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 6 apr 2009 94529 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Preț: 25418 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 381

Preț estimativ în valută:
4864 5116$ 4064£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 08-22 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441111500
ISBN-10: 1441111506
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Will be of interest to students and scholars in Ancient Philosophy, Political Theory, Ethics and Legal Philosophy.

Notă biografică

Sandrine Berges is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey.

Cuprins

Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics 1. Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics 2.Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics 3.What is Virtue Jurisprudence? Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito 1. Introduction 2. The incompatibility problem introduced. 3. Unconditional Obedience. 4. Agreement. 5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy. 6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience. Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus 1. Introduction 2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates 3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic 4. The Argument in the Menexenus 5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic. Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues 1.The Model of Psychic Health in Plato. 2.How the model works: elenchos as therapy. 3.Virtue and the situationists. 4.Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study. Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic 1.A problem and a solution? 2.Paternalism in the Republic 3.Educating the philosopher kings and the rest. 4.Paternalism in education. 5.Conclusion. Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity 1.Introduction. 2.Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman. 3.The anti-democratic reading of the second claim. 4.Equity. 5.An objection. 6.Making way for the Laws. Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens 1.Introduction. 2.Preambles. 3.The two audiences for the preambles. 4.Are the preambles paternalistic? 5.Persuading the Laws. Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions 1.A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions.2.Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting? 3.Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically? 4. Two examples: racism and sexism.

Recenzii

"Berges' project in this book is to develop a virtue theory of the law by way of a close examination of six of Plato's dialogues. This is an intriguing and fruitful line of inquiry, at the intersection of virtue ethics, ancient philosophy, and the philosophy of law ... No existing study covers the ground that she covers in this book, and her treatment is thorough, scholarly, and well-informed." - Tim Chappell, The Open University, UK
"This is a marvelous book that undertakes the novel but vital project of examining Plato's dialogues for the insights they provide into virtue ethics and especially the implications of virtue ethics for political philosophy. Anyone interested in Plato, contemporary virtue ethics or contemporary political philosophy will benefit from reading it." - Professor Chris Bobonich, Stanford University, USA