Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice Hardback
by Merrick (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University Anderson
Part of the British Academy Monographs series
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Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of justice from the Western Tradition.
In Part I, Anderson addresses the debates of the sophists, a group of politically minded intellectuals from the 5th Century BCE, considering relevant extant texts to produce the following conclusion: some of the sophists argued that being just was bad for the just individual, and that an individual would do well to be unjust instead, whereas others took it upon themselves to defend justice by arguing that the just life was best. Anderson continues in Part II to demonstrate that Plato, writing in the 4th Century, was aware of this debate and wanted to settle the matter himself.
In his Republic, one of the great philosophical treatises of all time, he revives the earlier dialogue of the sophists to argue that the just life is the best life for human beings.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:236 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780197267660
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:236 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780197267660
