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Socrates Dissatisfied
An Analysis of Plato's Crito
Av Roslyn Weiss
Inbunden, 1998
3021 kr
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Roslyn Weiss contends that, contrary to prevailing notions, Plato's Crito does not show an allegiance between Socrates and the state that condemned him. Denying that the speech of the Laws represents the views of Socrates, Weiss deftly brings to light numerous indications that Socrates provides to …
Virtue in the Cave
Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno
Av Roslyn Weiss
Inbunden, 2001
2215 kr
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This book is radically new interpretation of Plato's Meno. Roslyn Weiss takes and defends the position that the Meno is a self-conscious analysis and assessment of the worth not of inquiry itself, but of moral inquiry. Her coherent reading of the Meno identifies serious problems for orthodox …
Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem)
Translated with introduction and notes
Av Roslyn Weiss
Inbunden, 2018
2192 kr
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This book is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord, widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy, one second in importance only to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In it Crescas takes on not only Maimonides but, through him, …
Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies
Av Roslyn Weiss
Häftad, 2008
296 kr
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In "The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies", Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes - no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one - are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and …
Virtue in the Cave
Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno
Av Roslyn Weiss
Häftad, 2008
820 kr
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Virtue in the Cave is a study of Plato's Meno. Taking the dialogue's central theme to be the question of what virtue is, this book explores the limits of moral inquiry. It argues that, unlike mathematical problems that can be resolved definitively, and unlike technical enterprises whose success can …
Socrates Dissatisfied
An Analysis of Plato's Crito
Av Roslyn Weiss
Häftad, 2002
614 kr
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For whom do the personified Laws in the latter part of the Crito speak? Who is it in the dialogue who demands of the citizen utter submission to whatever the city bids whether right or wrong, just or unjust? If it is Socrates for whom the Laws speak and if it is he who sets the city's commands …
Philosophers in the "Republic"
Plato's Two Paradigms
Av Roslyn Weiss
Inbunden, 2012
771 kr
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In Plato's Republic Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, …
Justice in Plato's Republic
The Lessons of Book 1
Av Roslyn Weiss
Häftad, 2026
496 kr
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In Book 4 of Plato's Republic, Socrates introduces what is regarded by scholars as the Platonic account of justice, according to which it is essentially internal and self-regarding, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul. In this book, Roslyn Weiss contends that there is another …
Justice in Plato's Republic
The Lessons of Book 1
Av Roslyn Weiss
Inbunden, 2025
1400 kr
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In Book 4 of Plato's Republic, Socrates introduces what is regarded by scholars as the Platonic account of justice, according to which it is essentially internal and self-regarding, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul. In this book, Roslyn Weiss contends that there is another …
Philosophers in the "Republic"
Plato's Two Paradigms
Av Roslyn Weiss
Häftad, 2016
486 kr
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In Plato's Republic Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, …
