Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin

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Pub. Date: 2018-09-20
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Author Biography


David O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, He is the author of Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (1989), Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green (2003), and Mill's Progessive Principles (2013).

Susan Sauve Meyer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (1993, 2011), Ancient Ethics (2008), and a translation of Books 1 and 2 of Plato's Laws, with commentary.


Christopher Shields is Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (1999) and Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Commentary (2016).

Table of Contents


Introduction, David O. Brink, Susan Sauve Meyer, and Christopher Shields
1. Rethinking Agreement in Plato, Lesley Brown
2. Plato's Theory of Knowledge, Ralph Wedgwood
3. Justice and Persuasion in the Republic, Dominic Scott
4. Plato Against Democracy: A Defense, Richard Kraut
5. Self-Mastery and Self-Rule in Plato's Laws, Susan Sauve Meyer
6. Plato's Philebus and the Value of Idle Pleasure, Verity Harte
7. A Series of Goods, Christopher Shields
8. Practical Truth: An Interpretation of Parts of NE VI, David Charles
9. Aristotelian Feelings in the Rhetoric, Paula Gottlieb
10. 'Ought' in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Julia Annas
11. Deliberation and Decision in the Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics, Karen Nielsen
12. The Freedom Required for Moral Responsibility, John Martin Fischer
13. Virtue: Aristotle and Kant, Allen Wood
14. Richard Price on Virtue, Roger Crisp
15. Eudaimonism and Cosmopolitan Concern, David O. Brink
Bibliographies of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin

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