ISBN:
9780198922582
,
9780198922575
,
9780198922568
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
British Academy Monographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
321.07
Keywords:
Plato
;
Justice
;
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
;
Justice
;
Sophistes grecs
;
Ethics & moral philosophy
;
Society
Abstract:
Just Prospering? explores an important debate about the value of justice in Ancient Greece. Anderson begins with an analysis of the 5th Century BCE sophists and their novel philosophical debates about justice, before turning to Plato's Republic which, he argues, cannot be understood without attending to the sophistic dialogue
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series Page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Prospering? -- But Why 'Prospering'? -- The Plan Going Forward -- Part I The 5th-Century Debate about Justice -- 1 The Traditional View of Justice -- The Works and Days (WD) -- Transition to the 5th Century -- 2 The 5th-Century Challenge to Justice -- 'Sisyphus Fragment' (SF) -- On Truth (OT) -- Two Corroborating Texts -- Aristophanes' Clouds -- Thucydides' History -- Final Thoughts -- 3 The 5th-Century Defence of Justice
Description / Table of Contents:
'Anonymous Iamblichi' (AI) -- 'Choice of Heracles' (CH) -- Democritus' Ethical and Political Fragments -- Final Thoughts -- Part II The Debate in Plato -- 4 Transition to Plato -- Taking Stock of the Debate -- The Problem of the Plurality of Goods -- Back to the Debate -- Plato and the Debate -- Gorgias -- Protagoras -- An Unfortunate Blind Spot -- 5 A Challenge Old and New -- Book I -- An Old Challenge to Morality -- A New Challenge to Morality -- Reflections on the 5th-Century Debate -- 6 The Division of Goods and the Defence of Justice -- Looking Forward from the Challenge
Description / Table of Contents:
The Division of Goods -- The Central Argument of the Dialogue -- Republic and the 5th-Century Debate -- 7 Further Sophistic Echoes -- Glaucon's Request -- Socrates' Response: Book II -- Socrates' Response: Books IV-IX -- Final Thoughts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218) and indexes
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