资源描述：
《cambridge.university.press.aiming.at.virtue.in.plato.dec外语英文电子书》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在教育资源-天天文库。
1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankAIMINGATVIRTUEINPLATOThisinnovativestudyofPlato’sethicsfocusesontheconceptofvirtue.BasedondetailedreadingsofthemostprominentPlatonicdialoguesonvirtue,itarguesthatthereisacentralyetpreviouslyunno-ticedconceptualdistinctioninPlatobetweentheideaofvirtueasthesupremeai
2、mofone’sactionsandthedeterminationofwhichaction-tokensor-typesarevirtuous.Appreciatingthe“aiming/determiningdistinction”providesdetailedandmutuallyconsistentreadingsofthemostwell-knownPlatonicdialoguesonvirtueaswellasoriginalinter-pretationsofcentralPlatonicquestions.UnlikemostexaminationsofPl
3、ato’sethics,thisstudydoesnottakeasitscenterpiecethe“eudai-monistframework,”whichfocusesontherelationshipbetweenvirtueandhappiness.InsteadAimingatVirtueinPlatoarguesthatthedia-loguesthemselvesbeginwiththeideaofthesupremacyofvirtue,examinehowthatclaimcanbedefended,andaddresshowtodeter-minewhatco
4、nstitutesthevirtuousaction.iakovosvasiliouisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheGraduateCenterandBrooklynCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork.AIMINGATVIRTUEINPLATOIAKOVOSVASILIOUCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburgh
5、Building,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521862967©IakovosVasiliou2008Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagree
6、ments,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintformat2008ISBN-13978-0-511-45574-2eBook(EBL)ISBN-13978-0-521-86296-7hardbackCambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalorthird-partyin
7、ternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate.Tomyparents,BillandIreneVasiliouContentsAcknowledgementspageixIntroduction11Aiminganddetermining12Virtue,aims
