- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index
Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- Chapter:
- (p.318) 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- Source:
- Plato's Ethics
- Author(s):
Terence Irwin (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on how some crucial doctrines of the Republic are then developed in the Philebus. Firstly, the problem of whether pleasure or intelligence is the good in a more articulated way than the one of the Republic is treated. Secondly, the different types of knowledge and their role in the good life are examined. Thirdly, more generally, it is discussed how the Philebus presents a more exhaustive and precise account of what are, in Plato’s view, intelligence, pleasure, and good. Finally, it is underlined how the Philebus is important for understanding the connection between Plato’s and Aristotle’s ethics.
Keywords: Good, Knowledge, Intelligence, Philebus, Plato, Pleasure
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index