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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

Annas Julia
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801485176
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Annas Julia

Om bidragsyterne

Julia Annas is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Her books include Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind and The Morality of Happiness. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient.

Platonic Ethics, Old and New

Annas Julia
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
Annas Julia
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
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<p>In this remarkable book....Annas succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics.</p>

The Classical Journal

<p>Engaging.... Most ancient philosophy and classics collections will want this challenging study.</p>

LIBRARY JOURNAL

<p>It goes without saying that Annas writes with the elegance and lucidity which characterizes all her work, and that her mastery of the Platonic corpus and of the wide range of ancient commentators who she cites is total... regard the book as a milestone in modern Platonic studies. I have little doubt that it will have a permanent effect on Platonic scholarship, in causing writers in the analytic tradition to regard the Middle Platonists as people to be taken seriously in the search for understanding of Plato.</p>

- C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College at Oxford, The Philosophical Quarterly

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<p>Julia Annas has made a complex and subtle book out of her 1997 Townsend lectures at Cornell.... Annas's book is full of good things....</p>

- Francis Sparshott, Apeiron

<p>Original, provocative, and convincing... this is strongly recommended for university and college libraries.</p>

Choice

<p>This is a lively and contentious book, mixing scholarly partisanship with useful exposition of a variety of texts; it is clearly written throughout and should interest students as well as professionals. The appended 'Cast of Characters' is very helpful in making the argument surveyable.</p>

- Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford, The Classical Review

The Townsend Lectures Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.
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Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy.
Discovering a tradition; many voices - dialogue and development in Plato; transforming your life - virtue and happiness; becoming like God - ethics, human nature and the divine; the inner city - ethics without politics in the "Republic"; what use is the form of the good? - ethics and metaphysics in Plato; humans and beasts - moral theory and moral psychology; elemental pleasures - enjoyment and the good in Plato. Appendix: hedonism in the "Protagoras".
Les mer
In this remarkable book....Annas succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics.
Les mer
A series published jointly by the Cornell University Department of Classics and Cornell University Press
The series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, founded in 1887, is published jointly by the Cornell University Department of Classics and Cornell University Press. It includes monographs on a wide range of subjects within the field (traditionally by authors with some association, past or present, with the University) and published versions of the Townsend Lectures presented at Cornell. Manuscripts submitted are evaluated both by the Classics Department faculty and referees for Cornell University Press.
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<p>In this remarkable book....Annas succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics.</p>

The Classical Journal

<p>Engaging.... Most ancient philosophy and classics collections will want this challenging study.</p>

LIBRARY JOURNAL

<p>It goes without saying that Annas writes with the elegance and lucidity which characterizes all her work, and that her mastery of the Platonic corpus and of the wide range of ancient commentators who she cites is total... regard the book as a milestone in modern Platonic studies. I have little doubt that it will have a permanent effect on Platonic scholarship, in causing writers in the analytic tradition to regard the Middle Platonists as people to be taken seriously in the search for understanding of Plato.</p>

- C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College at Oxford, The Philosophical Quarterly

Se alle

<p>Julia Annas has made a complex and subtle book out of her 1997 Townsend lectures at Cornell.... Annas's book is full of good things....</p>

- Francis Sparshott, Apeiron

<p>Original, provocative, and convincing... this is strongly recommended for university and college libraries.</p>

Choice

<p>This is a lively and contentious book, mixing scholarly partisanship with useful exposition of a variety of texts; it is clearly written throughout and should interest students as well as professionals. The appended 'Cast of Characters' is very helpful in making the argument surveyable.</p>

- Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford, The Classical Review

The Townsend Lectures Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.
Les mer
Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy.
Discovering a tradition; many voices - dialogue and development in Plato; transforming your life - virtue and happiness; becoming like God - ethics, human nature and the divine; the inner city - ethics without politics in the "Republic"; what use is the form of the good? - ethics and metaphysics in Plato; humans and beasts - moral theory and moral psychology; elemental pleasures - enjoyment and the good in Plato. Appendix: hedonism in the "Protagoras".
Les mer
In this remarkable book....Annas succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics.
Les mer
A series published jointly by the Cornell University Department of Classics and Cornell University Press
The series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, founded in 1887, is published jointly by the Cornell University Department of Classics and Cornell University Press. It includes monographs on a wide range of subjects within the field (traditionally by authors with some association, past or present, with the University) and published versions of the Townsend Lectures presented at Cornell. Manuscripts submitted are evaluated both by the Classics Department faculty and referees for Cornell University Press.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801485176
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Annas Julia

Om bidragsyterne

Julia Annas is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Her books include Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind and The Morality of Happiness. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient.

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