Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (Vol 2)

This series aims to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading. The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selected bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading This volume looks at central area in Plato's philosophy: ethic, politics, religion, and the soul. In includes essays on virtue, knowledge, and happiness; justice and happiness; pleasure; Platonic love; feminism; the ideally just state, democracy and totalitarianism; and the nature of the soul and moral motivation [v.] 1. Metaphysics and epistemology [v.] 2. Ethics, politics, religion, and the soul