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Aiming at Virtue in Plato Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Iakovos Vasiliou


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This study of Plato's ethics focuses on the concept of virtue. Based on detailed readings of the most prominent Platonic dialogues on virtue, it argues that there is a central yet previously unnoticed conceptual distinction in Plato between the idea of virtue as the supreme aim of one's actions and the determination of which action-tokens or -types are virtuous. Appreciating the 'aiming/determining distinction' provides detailed and mutually consistent readings of the most well-known Platonic dialogues on virtue as well as original interpretations of central Platonic questions. Unlike most examinations of Plato's ethics, this study does not take as its centrepiece the 'eudaimonist framework', which focuses on the relationship between virtue and happiness. Instead, it argues that the dialogues themselves begin with the idea of the supremacy of virtue, examine how that claim can be defended, and address how to determine what constitutes the virtuous action.

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  • Title Aiming at Virtue in Plato
  • Author Iakovos Vasiliou
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 322
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2008-11-06
  • ISBN 9780521862967 / 0521862965
  • Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.28 x 1 in (22.99 x 15.95 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Plato
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008025989
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170.92

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/30/2009, Page 20
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