Platone e la questione della virtù
ISSN: 2611-3562
Language: Italian, Greek
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Platone e la questione della virtù
Ancient ethics and, with it, Plato's ethics represent an important and notable area of current philosophical investigation. This miscellaneous volume, made up of eight chapters preceded by a useful introduction, offers analyzes and critical discussions around the theme of virtue and some of its possible declinations. In addition to presenting the general idea of the book and explaining reflections sometimes left implicit in the individual contributions, the introduction offers an effective picture of the infinite implications of the question of virtue in Plato, giving space to the hypothesis that Platonic ethics is conceivable to within a precise metaphysical context. Eight interesting and unpublished essays then try to explain, with different literary arguments and historical-theoretical approaches, what virtue is, who the virtuous man is, how we can talk about the unity of virtue, and how identification of virtue and knowledge also in the discussions regarding the theory of the Master that take place in the Ancient Academy. Written by well-known Platonists in the international field and by younger scholars of ancient philosophy, the essays collected here aim to provide students and specialists in the field with an overview of the complexity of the question of virtue in Plato and of the different facets that it takes on in the dialogues and depending on the perspectives of investigation that each individual interpreter of ancient philosophical thought decides to embrace.
