Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life

by Daniel Russell

Book Overview

Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199229791
• ISBN13: 9780199229796
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"