Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, philosophy, companions, plato, companion
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1992-10-30
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521436109
ISBN-13: 9780521436106

Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato’s views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There ar

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: political, social, thought, modern, founders, philosophy, aristotle
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2002-04-18
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0198782004
ISBN-13: 9780198782001

This book offers a systematic overview of Aristotle’s conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the common good, class conflict, the limited wisdom of the multitude, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society.

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: human, aristotle
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1991-07-09
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 069102071X
ISBN-13: 9780691020716

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness with only one type of good: excellent activity of the rational soul. In defense of this reading, Kraut discusses Aristotle’s attempt to organize all human goods into a single structure, so that each subordinate end is desirable for the sake of some higher goal. This book also emphasizes the

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: republic, plato
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-08
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 084768492X
ISBN-13: 9780847684922

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato’s Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students’ understanding of this profoundly influential work. The comprehensive collection covers Plato’s social and political thought, his metaphysics and epistemology, his ethical theory, and his attitude towards women. The essays, chosen for their clarity and ability to stimulate student discussion, are related to one another in ways that will help students see the connections among the various strands of PlatoR

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: blackwell, guides, works, ethics, nicomachean, guide, aristotle
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-01-28
List price: $97.95
ISBN-10: 1405120207
ISBN-13: 9781405120203

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics consists of sixteen newly commissioned essays on one of the most widely studied texts in the history of ethics. The volume is faithful to the organization of the Nicomachean Ethics itself, discussing the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.The Guide, with specially commissioned essays contributed by a distinguished international cast of scholars and an introduction by Richard Kraut, illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both scholars and

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: essays, critical, classics, politics, aristotle
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-09-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0742534243
ISBN-13: 9780742534247

Aristotle’s Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division.

Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: state, socrates
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1987-07-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0691022410
ISBN-13: 9780691022413

This fresh outlook on Socrates’ political philosophy in Plato’s early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates’ refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are