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Plato: A Very Short Introduction

By: Julia Annas

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Plato: A Very Short Introduction

By: Julia Annas

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information. It stresses the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and touches on his arguments for the immortality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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019157922X

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Voices of Ancient Philosophy

An Introductory Reader

By: Julia Annas

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Voices of Ancient Philosophy

An Introductory Reader

By: Julia Annas

This topically organized collection is intended as an introduction to the many varied voices of ancient philosophy that involves the reader directly in the issues. Rather than proceeding chronologically, the student engages with a variety of contributions to issues of continuing relevance.

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0195126947

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Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

By: Julia Annas

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Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

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Julia Annas explores how Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law developed, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. She shows that, rather than rejecting the account given in his Republic, Plato develops in the Laws a more careful and sophisticated version of that account.

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0198851006

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Truth and Faith in Ethics

By: Hayden Ramsay,Raimond Gaita,John Haldane,Edward Howlett Spence,Jude Dougherty,Anthony O'Hear,Nicholas Tonti-Filippini,Bernadette Tobin,Richard Hamilton,Julia Annas,Nancy Sherman,Christopher Cordner,Sandra Lynch,John Lamont,Robert George,John Finnis

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Truth and Faith in Ethics

This addition to the St Andrews Studies series contains a wide-ranging collection of essays on all aspects of moral philosophy and its impact upon public life in the twent-first century. The book brings together ethicists from a variety of traditions interested in moral truth and its relation to religious faith. A key theme is interaction between major Catholic thinkers with philosophers from non-religious traditions. Topics include reason and religion, natural law, God and morality, anti-consequentialism, rights and virtues.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845402960

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The Morality of Happiness

By: Julia Annas

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The Morality of Happiness

By: Julia Annas

Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy and presents it in a way that is easily accessible to anyone with an interest in ancient or modern ethics. She examines the fundamental notions of happiness and virtue, the role of nature in ethical justification and the relation between concern for self and concern for others. Her careful examination of the ancient debates and arguments shows that many widespread assumptions about ancient ethics are quite mistaken. Ancient ethical theories are not egoistic, and do not depend for their acceptance on metaphysical theories of a teleological kind. Most centrally, they are recognizably theories of morality, and the ancient disputes about the place of virtue in happiness can be seen as akin to modern disputes about the demands of morality.

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0198024169

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Plato

A Very Short Introduction

By: Julia Annas

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A Very Short Introduction

By: Julia Annas

This introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It includes a brief account of Plato's life.

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The Modes of Scepticism

Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations

By: Julia Annas,Jonathan Barnes

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The Modes of Scepticism

Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations

By: Julia Annas,Jonathan Barnes

Although the Hellenistic classic has had an enormous impact on Western thought when rediscovered in the sixteenth century, it has remained neglected in recent times. This new translation should interest laymen as well as professional scholars and philosophers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521276446

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics--and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"--an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.

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0801485177

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

By: Julia Annas

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

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The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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0191578304

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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

By: Julia E. Annas

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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

By: Julia E. Annas

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul—an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind so lucidly and authoritatively that specialists and nonspecialists alike will find her book rewarding. In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is in fact a philosophy of mind, especially in the treatment of such topics as perception, thought, and action.

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0520912004

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New

By: Julia Annas

Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.

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0801466970

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The Morality of Happiness

By: Julia Annas

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Book's by Julia (Professor of Philosophy Annas, Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona)

Plato: A Very Short Introduction

Plato: A Very Short Introduction

Voices of Ancient Philosophy

Voices of Ancient Philosophy

Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

Truth and Faith in Ethics

Truth and Faith in Ethics

The Morality of Happiness

The Morality of Happiness

Plato

Plato

The Modes of Scepticism

The Modes of Scepticism

Platonic Ethics, Old and New

Platonic Ethics, Old and New

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

Platonic Ethics, Old and New

Platonic Ethics, Old and New

The Morality of Happiness

The Morality of Happiness

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