Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

by Dominic Scott

Book Overview

In Levels of Argument, Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective. In the first half he argues that the Republic distinguishes between two levels of argument in the defence of justice, the 'longer' and 'shorter' routes. The longer is the ideal and aims at maximum precision, requiring knowledge of the Forms and a definition of the Good. The shorter route is less precise, employing hypotheses, analogies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198801610
• ISBN13: 9780198801610
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"