Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780199251438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 652 str.

Christopher Bobonich

Opis

Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich examines later dialogues, with a special emphasis upon the Laws, and argues that in these late works, Plato both rethinks and revises the basic ethical and political positions that he held in his better-known earlier works, such as the Republic. This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.

Recenzje

... an extraordinarily ambitious study of Plato's growth as an ethical and political philosopher from the Phaedo to the Laws. Its principal theme is that Plato came to regard the moral psychology and theory of cognition in the IRepublic as a failure in its own terms; that he therefore radically revised his views in the later dialogues; and that these changes reach their culmination in the Laws. This is a work of great scope and boldness, and is bound to be controversial. Whether readers agree with Bobonich or not, they will inevitably learn a great deal by having to come to terms with his admirably detailed and systematic account of Plato's development.

O autorze

Christopher Bobonich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.