Virtue and reason in Plato and Aristotle / (Record no. 27391)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780198709350 |
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| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 179.9/P93 |
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| Classification number | CAS |
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| Number where instructions are found-single number or beginning number of span | CAS 179.9/P93 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Price, A. W. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5806 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Virtue and reason in Plato and Aristotle / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | A. W. Price. |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford, UK : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 356 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally published: 2011. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Plato on eudaimonia. Doing and living well ; The final end of action and desire -- Aristotle on eudaimonia. Two conceptions of eudaimonia ; Eudaimonia and its components ; 'In a complete life' ; Some further questions ; Intellectual contemplation -- Plato on virtue. The unity of virtue ; Virtue and emotion ; Desires and emotions in the Republic ; The Republic on the virtues -- Aristotle on virtue. The emotions ; The virtues and the mean ; Making sense of the mean ; The unity of the virtues -- Plato on practical reasoning. Practical inference in the Lysis and Gorgias ; Practical inference from the Gorgias to the Meno ; Means-end reasoning in the Republic ; Principles ; Measurement -- Aristotle on practical reasoning. What is practical thinking? ; Practical thinking and action ; Against eudaimonia as a grand end ; Principles ; The ends of deliberation ; Deliberation and intuition ; Is deliberation of ends? ; Broadie and McDowell ; The practical syllogism ; Should practical inference be deductive? -- Plato on acrasia. Acrasia in the Protagoras ; How plausible is the Protagoras? ; Acrasia in the Republic -- Aristotle on acrasia. An Aristotelian account that is not Aristotle's ; Aristotle's account ; Two difficulties ; A consideration of alternatives ; Eudaimonia revisited. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Price explores the views of Plato and Aristotle on how virtue of character and practical reasoning enable agents to achieve eudaimonia - the state of living or acting well. He provides a philosophical analysis and argues that the perennial question of action within human life is central to the reflections of ancient philosophers. |
| Expansion of summary note | A.W. Price explores the views of Plato and Aristotle on how virtue of character and practical reasoning enable agents to achieve eudaimonia-the state of living or acting well. He provides a full philosophical analysis and argues that the perennial question of action within human life is central to the reflections of these ancient philosophers. |
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| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Plato. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5807 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Aristotle. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1905 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Virtue. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 4217 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Reason. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5808 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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