1st Edition
Plato's Theory of Ethics The Moral Criterion and the Highest Good
By R.C. Lodge
Copyright 2001
572 Pages
by
Routledge
572 Pages
by
Routledge
572 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2000. This is Volume IX of ten in the International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient Philosophy. Written around 1928, this book looks at Plato and his work on ethics. The author looks at ‘Dialogues’ which he handles dialectically to show how they are more connected to his obscure problems connected with his personal history and the personal evolution of his views than his other works.
Introduction; Part I The Moral Criterion in Platonism; Chapter I Who is the Judge?; Chapter II The Objective Basis of the Moral Judgment; Chapter III The Moral Standards; Chapter IV The Psychological Aspect of the Moral Judgment, (a) Analysis; (b) Genesis; Chapter V Validity of the Moral Judgment; Chapter VI Conclusion: The Moral Criterion; Part II The Moral Criterion and the Highest Good; Chapter VII Soul—Body—Wealth; Chapter VIII The Value-Scale: Wealth, Strength, Beauty, Health, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom; Chapter IX Private and Public Spirit in Platonism; Chapter X Mind and its Value; Chapter XI The Divine, and its Value; Chapter XII Conclusion: The Significance of Value-Scales; Part III The Highest Goods in Platonism; Chapter XIII Pleasure, Wealth, Health; Chapter XIV Power; Chapter XV Happiness,. and Its Ethical Value; Chapter XVI Immortality, and its Ethical Value; Chapter XVII Goodness of Character as the Highest Good: Temperance, Justice; Chapter XVIII Genius, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Mind, as Chief Goods; Chapter XIX The Mean, and the Idea of Good as “Summum Bonum”; Chapter XX Civilization, the Community, Communal Self-Knowledge, Law and Order, the Comprehensive or Composite Life, the Excellence and Preservation of the Whole, God, as Highest Goods; Chapter XXI Conclusion: The Platonic Highest Good;
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Rupert C Lodge
