This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, human motivation, knowledge and understanding. In a clear systematic fashion, this book shows that modern moral philosophy still has much to learn from Plato's attempt to move the focus from questions of what acts the just person ought to perform to the more profound questions of what sort of person the just person ought to be.
- ISBN10 0198274289
- ISBN13 9780198274285
- Publish Date 3 September 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 370
- Language English