Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice

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Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice

By Merrick Anderson
Oxford University Press March 2024

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ISBN-13
9780197267660
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
March 2024
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of justice from the Western Tradition. In Part I, Anderson addresses the debates of the sophists, a group of politically minded intellectuals from the 5th Century BCE, considering relevant extant texts to produce the following conclusion: some of the sophists argued that being just was bad for the just individual, and that an individual would do well to be unjust instead, whereas others took it upon themselves to defend justice by arguing that the just life was best. Anderson continues in Part II to demonstrate that Plato, writing in the 4th Century, was aware of this debate and wanted to settle the matter himself. In his Republic, one of the great philosophical treatises of all time, he revives the earlier dialogue of the sophists to argue that the just life is the best life for human beings.

Table of Contents

Lists of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I: The 5th Century Debate about Justice
1:The Traditional View of Justice
2:The 5th Century Challenge to Justice
3:The 5th Century Defence of Justice

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II: The Debate in Plato
4:Transition to Plato
5:A Challenge to Old and New
6:The Divisions of Good and the Defence of Justice
7:Further Sophistic Echoes
Conclusion

Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
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