Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780198801610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Dominic Scott

Opis

Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective. He argues that Plato and Aristotle distinguish similar levels of argument in the defence of justice, and that they both follow the same approach: Plato because he thinks it will suffice, Aristotle because he thinks there is no need to go beyond it.

Recenzje

This book is without question a valuable contribution to our study of the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The carefulness and reasonableness with which Scott approaches the text inspire much confidence . . . this methodologically innovative study on a well-chosen topic really does manage to let fresh air into our perennial reading of the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics.

O autorze

Dominic Scott is currently Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. He was awarded a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1988 and taught there in the Faculty of Philosophy and Clare College until 2007. Since then has been at the University of Virginia, and has taught ethics and politics at the University of Kent. He has also held visiting positions at Oxford, Princeton and Harvard. From 2001 to 2003 he was a British Academy Research Reader. He has lectured extensively: in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He has also done a great deal of work bringing philosophy into the public arena, working with government, civil service and business, and has co-authored a report on the worldwide state of the humanities.