Dominic Scott

Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle

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Produktbeschreibung

Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863328
• ISBN-10: 0198863322
• Artikelnr.: 60363964

Autorenporträt

Dominic Scott is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, having worked as a lecturer at Cambridge University and then a professor at the University of Virginia. He has also held visiting positions at Princeton, Harvard, and the Center for Hellenic Studies Washington DC. In 2001-3 he was a British Academy Research Reader and in 2016 a Humboldt Fellow based in Munich. He has written three monographs on ancient philosophy and edited two further books, as well as co-authoring The Humanities World Report 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Plato's Republic
Introduction to Part I: Three Levels of Argument
1: The Longer Route
2: The Middle Route
3: The Shorter Route
4: The Role of Education
5: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Timocracy and Oligarchy
6: Irrationality in Republic VIII-IX: Democracy and Tyranny
Interim Conclusions
Part II: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Introduction to Part II: the Target Audience of the Nicomachean Ethics
7: The Functions of the Nicomachean Ethics
8: Aristotle and Moral Scepticism
9: The Young
10: Further Exclusions
11: Women and Moral Argument
12: The Roles of Music and Habituation
Conclusion