Plato's Utopia Recast
His Later Ethics and Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 July 2002
- ISBN 9780199251438
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages656 pages
- Size 242x164x40 mm
- Weight 1046 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich examines later dialogues, with a special emphasis upon the Laws, and argues that in these late works Plato both rethinks and revises the basic ethical and political positions that he held in his better known earlier works, such as the Republic.
This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.
Long description:
Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory.
Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens to achieve a truly good life. Bobonich sheds light on how this and other highly significant changes in Plato's views are grounded in changes in his psychology and epistemology.
This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.
In this careful, illuminating and fascinating book Bobonich demonstrates that Laws marks an important stage in Plato's philosophical development, and constitutes a major contribution to moral and political philosophy ... Bobonich's book is an important contribution. With its help, students of Plato's and Aristotle's moral and political philosophy can now do justice to Laws.
Table of Contents:
Philosophers and non-philosophers in the Phaedo and Republic
Virtue , good, and happiness in the Laws
Parts of the soul and the psychology of virtue
Parts of the soul and non-rational motivations
The Citizens of Magnesia
References, Index
