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"Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade, and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, these essays cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research"--Provided by publisher.
Plato --- Vertu --- Platon, --- State, The. --- Plato. --- State, The --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Etat --- Vertus. --- Laws (Plato). --- État. --- Platon. --- Platon --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy
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Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and intense for the past two decades. Standard stories that presented Socrates as the philosopher who simply denied the phenomenon, and Plato and Aristotle as rehabilitating it straightforwardly against Socrates, have been challenged in many different ways. Building on those challenges, this collective provides new, and in some cases opposed ways of reading well-known as well as more neglected texts. Its 13 contributions, written by experts in the field, cover the whole history of Greek ethics, from Socrates to Plotinus, through Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics (Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Epictetus).
Akrasia --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- History. --- Akrasia. --- Ethics --- Wilszwakte. --- History --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Morale ancienne --- Histoire --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Ethics, Greek --- Acrasia (Ethics) --- Incontinence (Ethics) --- Akrasia - Greece - History.
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