Laws 1 and 2

ISBN-13: 9780199604098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 376 str.

Opis

Susan Sauve Meyer presents a new translation of Laws, 1 and 2: the opening books of Plato's last work, which discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and aesthetics. This fluent, readable, and authoritative translation is accompanied by a critical commentary which explores the argument's structure, and the philosophical issues at stake.

Recenzje

up to now, readers looking for a philosophically sensitive commentary on the work in English have had nowhere to turn . . . Susan Sauvé Meyer has begun to fill this lacuna with her excellent volume on Books I-II, a work that will put all serious students of the Laws into her considerable debt. It should also lead us to look forward eagerly to her continuation of the project in a future volume on Books III-V.

O autorze

Susan Sauvé Meyer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987 and taught at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. She specializes in Classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, with special interest in natural philosophy and the ethical tradition. Her publications include Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (Blackwell, 1993; reissued by OUP in 2011) and Ancient Ethics (Routledge, 2008).