1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of ? A Question about the Plot of the Republic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors and Editors x
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of ? A Question about the Plot of the Republic 15
7. 2. Glaucon’s Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality 42
8. 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers 61
9. 4. Neutralism in Book I of the Republic 76
10. 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics? 93
11. 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato’s Republic 124
12. 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought 154
13. 8. Is Plato’s Conception of the Form of the Good Contradictory? 168
14. 9. The Good, Essences and Relations 197
15. 10. The Idea of the Good and the Other Forms in Plato’s Republic 202
16. 11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun Analogy of the Republic 231
17. 12. The Good and Mathematics 251
18. 13. The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy Between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics? 275
19. 14. Inquiry and Justification in the Search for the Highest Good in Plato and Aristotle 279
20. 15. The Carpenter and the Good 293
21. 16. Conversion or Conversation? A Note on Plato’s Philosophical Methods 320
22. Index 328