TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price, A. W.
TI  - Virtue and reason in Plato and Aristotle
SN  - 9780198709350
U1  - 179.9/P93 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Plato. 
KW  - Aristotle.
KW  -  Virtue.
KW  - Reason
N1  - Originally published: 2011; 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; CAS
N2  - 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; 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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