Binding: Paperback
Description: Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally thought) Plato is in both dialogues concerned with the relation of virtue to law and obedience to law and presents in the Laws a more careful and sophisticated account of that relation. His approach in the Laws differs from his earlier one because he now tries to build from the political cultures of actual societies (and their histories) instead of producing a theoretical thought - experiment. Plato develops an original project in which obedience to law is linked with education to promote understanding of the laws and of the virtues which obedience to them promote. Annas also explores how this project appeals independently to the very different later writers Cicero and Philo of Alexandria.
Title: Virtue And Law In Plato And Beyond
Author(s): Annas Julia (Regents Professor Of Philosophy Regents Professor Of Philosophy University Of Arizona)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198851004
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2020
Category: Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500