Plato's moral realism / Lloyd P. Gerson, University of Toronto.
"This book attempts to situate Plato's ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Plato's metaphysics helps explain his politic...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Platonism and moral realism
- 2. The idea of the good
- 3. Virtue, knowledge, and the good
- 4. Socratic versus Platonic ethics?
- 5. Moral responsibility
- 6. Philebus and Statesman
- 7. Morality, religion, and politics
- 8. Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General index.