书名: Platonic Ethics, Old and New
作者: Julia Annas (Author)
出版社: Cornell (2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0801485177
ISBN-13: 978-0801485176
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato’s ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato’s own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato’s ethics--and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato’s thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato’s ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics.
Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind’s final end is “becoming like God”--an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato’s ethical writings.
Review
"[E]ngaging. . . . Most ancient philosophy and classics collections will want this challenging study." -- Library Journal
"Original, provocative, and convincing...strongly recommended for university and college libraries." -- Choice
"It goes without saying that Annas writes with the elegance and lucidity which characterizes all her work, and that her mastery of the Platonic corpus and of the wide range of ancient commentators who she cites is total... regard the book as a milestone in modern Platonic studies. I have little doubt that it will have a permanent effect on Platonic scholarship, in causing writers in the analytic tradition to regard the Middle Platonists as people to be taken seriously in the search for understanding of Plato." -- C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College at Oxford, The Philosophical Quarterly. 2000.
"In this remarkable book....[Annas] succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics." -- The Classical Journal. Feb.-Mar., 2000.
"Julia Annas has made a complex and subtle book out of her 1997 Townsend lectures at Cornell. . . . Annas's book is full of good things. . . ." -- Francis Sparshott, Apeiron, 0003-6390/2000/3301, Mar/June 2000.
"This is a lively and contentious book, mixing scholarly partisanship with useful exposition of a variety of texts; it is clearly written throughout and should interest students as well as professionals. The appended 'Cast of Characters' is very helpful in making the argument surveyable." -- Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford. The Classical Review, Oxford University Press, 2000
"[T]his book is an important and innovative contribution to Platonic studies." -- The Front Table, Winter, 2000
"This book derives from Annas's 1997 Townsend Lectures at Cornell University, and it retains the invigorating clarity and fast pace of a first-rate lecture series...As those familiar with Annas's earlier books will expect, the writing throughout is admirably brisk and clear; the arguments come thick and fast, and any student of Plato will find many new ideas worth pondering." -- Rachel Barney, University of Chicago. The Philosophical Review, Vo. 110, No. 1 (January 2001)
"This highly readable and engaging book was originally written for the Townsend Lecture Series at Cornell University. . . . In seven concise chapters, Annas addresses the dialogic character of Plato's writing and helpfully illuminates how the middle Platonists interpreted this dimension of his work. . . This book will interest anyone from upper level undergraduates with an interest in Plato to professional scholars." -- Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University. Religious Studies Review, April 2002
About the Author
Julia Annas is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Her books include Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind and The Morality of Happiness. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient.
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作者: Julia Annas (Author)
出版社: Cornell (2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0801485177
ISBN-13: 978-0801485176
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato’s ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato’s own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato’s ethics--and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato’s thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato’s ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics.
Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind’s final end is “becoming like God”--an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato’s ethical writings.
Review
"[E]ngaging. . . . Most ancient philosophy and classics collections will want this challenging study." -- Library Journal
"Original, provocative, and convincing...strongly recommended for university and college libraries." -- Choice
"It goes without saying that Annas writes with the elegance and lucidity which characterizes all her work, and that her mastery of the Platonic corpus and of the wide range of ancient commentators who she cites is total... regard the book as a milestone in modern Platonic studies. I have little doubt that it will have a permanent effect on Platonic scholarship, in causing writers in the analytic tradition to regard the Middle Platonists as people to be taken seriously in the search for understanding of Plato." -- C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College at Oxford, The Philosophical Quarterly. 2000.
"In this remarkable book....[Annas] succeeds in leading us to take seriously the Middle Platonist interpretation. While Alcinous and his cohorts may not be Vlastos, Shorey, or Grote, they should not be ignored, at least if we are interested in getting clear about Plato's ethics." -- The Classical Journal. Feb.-Mar., 2000.
"Julia Annas has made a complex and subtle book out of her 1997 Townsend lectures at Cornell. . . . Annas's book is full of good things. . . ." -- Francis Sparshott, Apeiron, 0003-6390/2000/3301, Mar/June 2000.
"This is a lively and contentious book, mixing scholarly partisanship with useful exposition of a variety of texts; it is clearly written throughout and should interest students as well as professionals. The appended 'Cast of Characters' is very helpful in making the argument surveyable." -- Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford. The Classical Review, Oxford University Press, 2000
"[T]his book is an important and innovative contribution to Platonic studies." -- The Front Table, Winter, 2000
"This book derives from Annas's 1997 Townsend Lectures at Cornell University, and it retains the invigorating clarity and fast pace of a first-rate lecture series...As those familiar with Annas's earlier books will expect, the writing throughout is admirably brisk and clear; the arguments come thick and fast, and any student of Plato will find many new ideas worth pondering." -- Rachel Barney, University of Chicago. The Philosophical Review, Vo. 110, No. 1 (January 2001)
"This highly readable and engaging book was originally written for the Townsend Lecture Series at Cornell University. . . . In seven concise chapters, Annas addresses the dialogic character of Plato's writing and helpfully illuminates how the middle Platonists interpreted this dimension of his work. . . This book will interest anyone from upper level undergraduates with an interest in Plato to professional scholars." -- Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University. Religious Studies Review, April 2002
About the Author
Julia Annas is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Her books include Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind and The Morality of Happiness. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient.
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