Philosophy and the Good : On Plato's Philebus (Suny series, New Perspectives on the History of Political Thought)

Levy, David F.

State University of New York Press（2026/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 274 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798855809756

Full Description

A comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's Philebus.

This book offers a comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's dialogue on the best life, the Philebus. Through close attention to the details of the text and consideration of Plato's manner of writing, the book clarifies how the dialogue's many difficult sections form a beautiful whole, thereby bringing out the unity of Plato's thought. It shows how Plato's metaphysics and epistemology support and inform his understanding of the character of the philosophic life and his argument that philosophy is the best way of life. Finally, this book seeks to present the compelling character of Plato's thought—that is, to show that his understanding of the philosophic life deserves to be taken as seriously today as it has ever been.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Preliminary Considerations

1. The Conversation's Context

2. The One and the Many

3. The Mixed Life and the Good

4. The Fourfold Division of Being

Part Two: The Analysis of Pleasure

5. The Problem of Anticipatory Pleasures

6. Pleasure in the Best Life

Part Three: The Analysis of Thought

7. Mathematical Precision

8. Dialectical Truth

Part Four: The Dialogue's Conclusion

9. The Mixture

10. The Good

Notes
Works Cited
Index