Platonic Ethics, Old and New
The Townsend Lectures
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 th...
The Townsend Lectures
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 th...
