Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

by Julia Annas

Book Overview

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally thought), Plato is in both dialogues concerned with the relation of virtue to law, and obedience to law, and presents, in the Laws, a more careful and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198755740
• ISBN13: 9780198755746
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"