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Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Daniel Russell
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Description for Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
hardcover. Examines Plato's insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value, happiness and human psychology. This book offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics. It presents a discussion of the topic for fifty years, and shows its relevance to contemporary debates. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 585. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing about goodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill of living are, in ... Read more
Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing about goodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill of living are, in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PR
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199282845
SKU
KSG0033636
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Reviews for Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
interesting and provocative book.
Naomi Reshotko, Mind
...finds considerably more coherence and philosophical interest than others have before him ... well and clearly written ... a good and challenging book. Anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy will want to own this book... It is not just that Russell develops his own views well, but he also ... Read more
Naomi Reshotko, Mind
...finds considerably more coherence and philosophical interest than others have before him ... well and clearly written ... a good and challenging book. Anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy will want to own this book... It is not just that Russell develops his own views well, but he also ... Read more