Plato on the Unity of the Virtues - Rod Jenks

Plato on the Unity of the Virtues

A Dialectic Reading

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
128 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9203-1 (ISBN)
95,95 inkl. MwSt
In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable.
Plato in the Protagoras suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which they are both one and many is finally ineffable. He shows how, elsewhere in the corpus, Plato countenances ineffability. Jenks’s interpretation of Protagoras accounts for the otherwise-inexplicable inability of both Socrates and Protagoras to identify the bone of contention between them. Not only can the thesis not be argued for; it can’t even be properly stated. Jenks shows how the long exegesis on the Simonides poem is philosophically relevant. Further, he shows that both the parts-of-the-face analogy and the gold analogy are inadequate, arguing that Plato intends them to be so. Jenks explains why the unity thesis is supported by—what most scholars agree are—terrible arguments: the virtues are both one and many. He explains why, in spite of the unity claim being profoundly elusive, Plato believes it to be crucial that we come to appreciate how virtue, which really does have parts, can also be profoundly one.

Rod Jenks teaches philosophy at the University of Portland.

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Quality of the Unity Arguments

Chapter 3: Unity Passages in the Protagoras

Chapter 4: The Unity Arguments

Chapter 5: Rival Explanations of Unity

Chapter 6: Other Indications of Ineffability

Chapter 7: Meaning and Express-ability

Chapter 8: Socratic Intellectualism

Chapter 9: Indirect Argument in Plato

Chapter 10: The Importance of Unity

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Indexes

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 237 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 1-4985-9203-1 / 1498592031
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-9203-1 / 9781498592031
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