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Ancient philosophy is no longer an isolated discipline. Recent years have seen the development of a dialogue between ancient and contemporary philosophers writing on central issues in moral and political philosophy. The renewed interest in character and virtue as ethical concepts is one such issue, yet Plato's contribution has been largely neglected in contemporary virtue ethics.
In Plato on Virtue and the Law, Sandrine Berges seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring the contribution that virtue ethics make to the understanding of laws alongside the interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns evident in Plato's dialogues. The book argues that a distinctive virtue theory of law is clearly presented in Plato's political dialogues. Through a new reading of the Crito, Menexenus, Gorgias, Republic, Statesman and Laws, Berges shows how Plato proposes several ways in which we can understand the law from the perspective of virtue ethics.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics
2. Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics
3. What is Virtue Jurisprudence?
1. Introduction
2. The incompatibility problem introduced.
3. Unconditional Obedience.
4. Agreement.
5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy.
6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience.
Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus
Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues
3. Virtue and the situationists.
4. Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study.
Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic
2. Paternalism in the Republic
4. Paternalism in education.
5. Conclusion.
Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity
2. Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman.
3. The anti-democratic reading of the second claim.
4. Equity.
5. An objection.
6. Making way for the Laws.
Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens
2. Preambles.
3. The two audiences for the preambles.
5. Persuading the Laws.
Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions
Product details
| Published | Apr 07 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 188 |
| ISBN | 9781441117199 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Series | Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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