On the good life : thinking through the intermediaries in Plato's Philebus /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- The unity of the Philebus: metaphysical assumptions of the good human life
- The placement of pleasure and knowledge in the fourfold articulation of reality
- Hybrid varieties of pleasure: true mixed pleasures and false pure pleasures
- The nature of pleasure: absolute standards of filling or replenishment and due measure
- Pleasures of learning and the role of due measure in experiencing them
- Plato's conception of pleasure confronting three Aristotelian critiques
- The Philebus' implicit response to the aporiai of participation from the Parmenides.