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Plato's Ethics
This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "How ought we to live?" It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; his views about the connection between the virtues and happiness; and the account of reason, desire, and motivation that underlies his arguments about the virtues. Plato's answer to the epistemological question, "How...more
Paperback, 464 pages
Published
January 12th 1995
by Oxford University Press
(first published January 1st 1995)
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This is a book I used during my Plato seminar in grad school, but never read all of. I had always intended to get back to it and though I'd read it this year as I began my re-reading through the philosophical canon (I want to read some secondary lit as well). Okay, so I've gotten a couple of hundred pages through it in almost two months, and I'm just not going to finish it. Don't want to. It is not a bad book, good in fact. But I'd much rather move on to Aristotle.
Per suggestion from Mickles that my ethics need some tuning up.
Update: Turns out my ethics are just fine, thank you.
Update: Turns out my ethics are just fine, thank you.
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Terence Irwin is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics (i.e. the history of Western moral philosophy in ancient, medieval, and modern times).
Since 2007, he has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. From 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he has been Susan Li...more
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Since 2007, he has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. From 1975 until 2007, he was at Cornell University, where he has been Susan Li...more
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