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Plato on the Unity of the Virtues
A Dialectic Reading
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2022
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Plato, in the Protagoras, suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable. He shows how Plato countenances ineffability throughout his corpus. Jenks’s interpretation of Protagoras accounts for the otherwise-inexplicable inability of both Socrates and Protagoras to identify the bone of contention between them. Not only can the thesis not be argued for; it can’t even be properly stated. In this book, Jenks shows how the long exegesis on the Simonides poem is philosophically relevant. Further, he shows that both the parts-of-the-face analogy and the gold analogy are inadequate, arguing that Plato intends them to be so. Jenks explains why the unity thesis is supported by what most scholars agree are terrible arguments: that the virtues are both one and many. He explains why, despite the unity claim being profoundly elusive, Plato believes it to be crucial that we come to appreciate how virtue, which really does have parts, can also be profoundly one.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9203-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9204-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
120
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter One The Quality of the Unity Arguments No access Pages 13 - 18
Chapter Two Unity Passages in the Protagoras No access Pages 19 - 26
Chapter Three The Unity Arguments No access Pages 27 - 34
Chapter Four Rival Explanations of Unity No access Pages 35 - 46
Chapter Five Other Indications of Ineffability No access Pages 47 - 52
Chapter Six Meaning and Express-ability No access Pages 53 - 58
Chapter Seven Socratic Intellectualism No access Pages 59 - 70
Chapter Eight Indirect Argument in Plato No access Pages 71 - 74
Chapter Nine The Importance of Unity No access Pages 75 - 80
