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Plato's Laws : a critical guide.
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ISBN: 9781107658684 9780521884631 0521884632 9780511781483 1107658683 9780511919121 0511919123 0511851286 1107219132 1282918559 9786612918551 0511918143 0511917163 0511915357 0511781482 0511913567 6612918551 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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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.

Akrasia in Greek philosophy : from Socrates to Plotinus.
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ISSN: 00791687 ISBN: 9004156704 9789004156708 9786612396960 128239696X 9047420128 9789047420125 Year: 2007 Volume: 106 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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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).

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