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Plato and the hero : = courage, manliness, and the impersonal good /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Plato and the hero :/ Angela Hobbs.
Reminder of title:	courage, manliness, and the impersonal good /
remainder title:	Plato & the Hero
Author:	Hobbs, Angela
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Courage - History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551437
ISBN:	9780511551437 (ebook)

Plato and the hero : = courage, manliness, and the impersonal good /
Hobbs, Angela

Plato and the hero :courage, manliness, and the impersonal good /Plato & the HeroAngela Hobbs. - 1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The puzzle of Plato's thumos --1.

Plato's thinking on courage, manliness and heroism is both profound and central to his work, but these areas of his thought remain under-explored. This book examines his developing critique of both the notions and embodiments of manliness prevalent in his culture (particularly those in Homer), and his attempt to redefine them in accordance with his own ethical, psychological and metaphysical principles. It further seeks to locate the discussion within the framework of his general approach to ethics, an approach which focuses on concepts of flourishing and virtue, rather than on consequences or duty. The question of why courage is necessary in the flourishing life in its turn leads to Plato's bid to unify the noble and the beneficial and the tensions this unification creates between human and divine ideals. The issue of manliness also raises problems of gender: does Plato conceive of the ethical subject as human or male?

ISBN: 9780511551437 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

576192
Plato.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

802869
Courage
--History.

LC Class. No.: B398.C69 / H63 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 179/.6/092

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